Plenary Biographies

Professor John Kerrigan on 'Bonds'

John Kerrigan is a professor of English Literature at St. John's College, University of Cambridge. He has held visiting positions at UCLA and Auckland. He is the author of On Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature: Essays (Oxford, 2001); Archipelagic English: Literature, History, and Politics, 1603-1707 (Oxford, 2008); and Revenge Tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon (Clarendon Press, 1996), for which he won the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism.

Professor Andrew Hadfield on 'Lies'

Andrew Hadfield is a professor of English Literature at the University of Sussex, Centre for Early Modern Studies, and a visiting professor at the University of Granada (Spain). He is the former editor of Renaissance Studies, and is the author of Shakespeare, Spenser and The Matter of Britain (Basingstoke, 2003); Shakespeare and Republicanism (Cambridge, 2005, rptd 2007, pbk 2008); and Edmund Spenser: A Life (Oxford, 2012). He is currently working on The Oxford Handbook of English Prose, 1500-1640, the Norton Spenser, with Anne Lake Prescott, and will be giving the 2013 annual Shakespeare Birthday lecture at the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Professor Lorna Hutson on 'Circumstances'

Lorna Hutson is the Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. She has held fellowships from the Folger, the Huntington Library and the Guggenheim, is a corresponding editor of the journal Representations, and delivered the 2012 Oxford Wells Lectures. Lorna's book, The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (OUP, 2007, pbk 2011) shows that forensic narrative is essential to the dramaturgy of the English Renaissance, especially Shakespeare and Jonson. She is currently working, with Bradin Cormack, on the Oxford Handbook of English Law and Literature, 1500-1700, and directs CMEMLL, the Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature.