Having taken a BA in History at Sussex University, I went on to do an MA there in the literature of the English Renaissance, and a DPhil on the subject of seventeenth-century women's autobiography. I taught in the Department of English at Swansea University before coming to UEL as a historian, so I have crossed the border between English and History repeatedly! At UEL I continue to teach in both subjects, and enjoy both their differences and their close connections.

I am currently research leader for the School of Arts and Digital Industries.

My primary research interests are in the history of madness, the history of subjectivity and the relation between history and memory. I have also published on other topics in seventeenth-century history, such as witchcraft, dreams and historical fiction.

• BA History
• BA English Literature

• CC1403 Making the Modern Self
• CC2302 Early Modern Literature
• CC3404 History and Memory
• CC2406 Madness, Culture and History

My current research focuses on two areas. One is early modern memory, including both memory in early modern England (how people at the time remember and represent the past), and the memory of that period today (how we now think about the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries outside academic work - eg novels, TV serials, re-enactments, heritage sites, etc.) The second is a continuing broader interest in the history of mentalities, including madness and melancholy, but also the history of emotions more generally; at present I am working on the importance of sibling relationships in early modern life writing.

Recent publications include:

Katharine Hodgkin, Women, Madness and Sin in Early Modern England: the autobiographical writings of Dionys Fitzherbert, Ashgate 2010. (Dual text edition in original and modernised transcripts, with introduction)

Katharine Hodgkin, ‘Religion and the body in seventeenth-century women’s melancholy’, Studies in the Literary Imagination, forthcoming 2012

Books:

• Katharine Hodgkin, Madness in Seventeenth-Century Autobiography, Palgrave 2006 

• Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O’Callaghan and S. J. Wiseman, Reading the Early Modern Dream: the terrors of the night, Routledge (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) 2007

• Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone (eds), Contested Pasts: the politics of memory, Routledge 2003; reprinted as Memory, History, Nation: contested pasts, Transaction Publishers 2005

• Susannah Radstone and Katharine Hodgkin (eds), Regimes of Memory, Routledge 2003; reprinted as Memory Cultures: memory, subjectivity and recognition, Transaction Publishers 2005

Articles and book chapters (selected)

• ‘Dreaming Meanings: some early modern dream thoughts’, in Katharine Hodgkin, Michelle O’Callaghan and Susan Wiseman eds, Reading the Early Modern Dream: the terrors of the night, Routledge 2007

• ‘Gender, Mind and Body: feminism and psychoanalysis’, in Jonathan Barry and Owen Davies (eds), The Palgrave Guide to Witchcraft Studies, Palgrave 2007

•  ‘The Witch, the Puritan and the Prophet: some seventeenth-century issues’, in Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (eds), Metahistory and Metanarrative in Contemporary Women’s Writing, Palgrave 2007

• ‘The Labyrinth and the Pit’ History Workshop Journal 51, spring 2001

• ‘Reasoning with Unreason: witchcraft, visions and madness in seventeenth-century England’, in Stuart Clark (ed), Languages of Witchcraft, Macmillan 2000

• ‘Dionys Fitzherbert and the Anatomy of Madness’, in Kate Chedgzoy, Melanie Hansen, Suzanne Trill (eds), Voicing Women: gender and sexuality in early modern writing, Keele UP 1996

• ‘Conceits of Mind, Conceits of Body: Dionys Fitzherbert and the discourses of religion and madness’, in Stanley Porter (ed), The Nature of Religious Language, Sheffield Academic Press 1996

• ‘Thomas Whythorne and the Problems of Mastery’, History Workshop Journal 29, spring 1990

Member, Institute of Historical Research; co-convenor of IHR seminar series 'Society, Culture and Belief 1500-1800' and 'Psychoanalysis and History'

Member, Raphael Samuel History Centre team, UEL

Member, Madness and Literature network

Editorial advisory board, Memory Studies