Lorna Hutson

Professor Lorna Hutson
Born	(1958-11-27) November 27, 1958 Berlin
Title	Merton Professor of English Literature
Awards	Guggenheim Fellowship, 2004 British Academy Fellowship, 2016
Academic background
Alma mater	Somerville College, Oxford
Academic work
Institutions	Queen Mary College, London University of Hull University of California, Berkeley University of St Andrews

Lorna Margaret Hutson (born 27 November 1958) is the ninth Merton Professor of English Literature and a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford. Together with Professor John Hudson, she is a director of The Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature at the University of St Andrews.

Life and career

Lorna Hutson was born in Berlin, in what was then West Germany, in November 1958; her father, John Whiteford Hutson, was a British career diplomat. She attended St Hilary's School, Edinburgh and Tormead School, Guildford before going up to Somerville College, Oxford, where she took first class honours and was awarded her DPhil in 1983.

From 1986 to 1998, Hutson was a lecturer, then Reader in English Literature, at Queen Mary College, London. For the following two years she was Professor of English Literature at the University of Hull, and then spent four years as a Professor in the English Department of the University of California, Berkeley. in 2004 she returned to the UK to take up the position of Berry Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship the same year. Her book The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama won the Roland Bainton Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2012 Hutson was Dr Alice Griffin Fellow in Shakespearean Studies at the University of Auckland; she also gave the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures, on the subject of ‘Circumstantial Shakespeare’; the lectures were published by Oxford University Press under the same title in 2015.

In 2016 she was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy, and in September took up the post of Merton Professor of English Literature, becoming a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

Publications

• Thomas Nashe in Context (1989) ISBN 9780198128762
• The Usurer's Daughter: Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in Sixteenth-Century England (1994) ISBN 0203215605
• Feminism and Renaissance Studies (editor, 1999) ISBN 9780198782438
• Rhetoric and Law in Early Modern Europe (co-editor, 2001) ISBN 0300084854
• The Invention of Suspicion: Law and Mimesis in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (2007) ISBN 9780199691487
• Circumstantial Shakespeare (2015) ISBN 9780198782438

External links

• Profile page on the Merton College website