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Professor Lorna Hutson is the Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Merton College. Her research focuses on early modern English literature, particularly intersections between literary form and cultural practices like economics, law, and political theology. She has held prestigious roles including Berry Chair of English Literature at the University of St Andrews and Professorships at UC Berkeley and the University of Hull. Her work has been recognized with the Roland Bainton Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Saltire Society Prize for her 2024 book England's Insular Imagining.
Her research explores themes such as legal rhetoric in drama, the economic underpinnings of literature, and the pre-1603 imagining of Britain. Current projects include a collaboration on 'premodern probability' with Dr Katrin Ettenhuber. She directs the Centre for Early Modern Studies (CEMS) at Oxford and edits the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture series.
Professor Hutson teaches graduate courses on early modern literature at Oxford and has supervised doctoral research on topics including lawmaking violence, Ben Jonson, and clandestine marriage. She serves on advisory boards for institutions like the Thomas Nashe Project and the journal Representations.
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