Biography
Elizabeth Hanson has taught English at Queen鈥檚 since 1989. Her teaching and research focusses on Shakespeare and early modern drama, humanist education, and the deep structure of genre in producing character, epistemic, and moral effects in the drama. She has also recently served as the Chief Negotiator and President of the Queen鈥檚 University Faculty Association, and in that capacity developed an interest in the impact of neoliberalism on the deliberative culture of the university.
Research Interests
Early modern English drama, education in letters, the social history of high literacy, university history, liberal and neo-liberal versions of the university
Selected Publications
Discovering the Subject in Renaissance England
Cambridge University Press
2008
Originally published in 1998; Reissued in paperback, 2008.
Recent Publications
- 鈥淣ormal School: Merry Wives and the Future of a Feeling,鈥 in Staged Normality in Shakespeare's England, eds. Rory Loughnane and Edel Semple. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018); 69-88.
- 鈥淓arly Modern Pedagogy and The Three Ladies of London,鈥 The Three Ladies of London in Context. 2015. 16pp.
- 鈥淣o Boy Left Behind: Education and Distributive Justice in Early Modern England.鈥 In Taking Exception to the Law: Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature, eds. Donald Beecher et al. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 2015; 179-203.
- 鈥淥bject Lesson: The Register of the School鈥檚 Probation, Merchant Taylors鈥 School, 1606.鈥 Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 6.3 (Fall 2013); 413-421.
- 鈥淓ducation, the University and Marlowe鈥 Christopher Marlowe in Context, eds. Emily Bartels and Emma Smith. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013); 181-191.
- 鈥淔ellow Students: Hamlet, Horatio and the Early Modern University,鈥 Shakespeare Quarterly. 62 (2011); 205-229.
Works in Progress
- Book: 鈥淭he Social Place of Learning and the Drama in Shakespeare鈥檚 England
Upcoming Projects
- Edition: Drama at Cambridge, circa 1600. (Critical edition of the 鈥淧arnassus Plays,鈥 Club Law and some 鈥渟altings鈥 or dramatic student initiation ceremonies.)
- Book Project: 鈥淭he Deliberative Subject and the Neoliberal University.鈥
Awards and Recognition
OCUFA 2020 Lorimer Award for 鈥渙utstanding contribution to faculty collective bargaining鈥 in Ontario.
Areas of Study
Pedagogy and Education Studies
Genres and Forms
Literary Theory and Criticism
Poetry and Poetics
