Professor Kate Hodgkin
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Kate Hodgkin is Professor of Cultural History and UEL Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. Her research focuses on the culture of early modern England, and on memory studies.
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University of East London
Docklands Campus
University Way
London, E16 2RD
United Kingdom
E16 2RD - k.hodgkin@uel.ac.uk +44208232934
I am an active researcher and a committed teacher. Having taken a BA in History, an MA in English Renaissance Literature, and a PhD on autobiographical writing, my approach to both research and teaching is interdisciplinary, and I enjoy teaching on both History and English programmes at UEL. I am currently working on early modern memory cultures, including nostalgia, time, and space, and writing a general overview of the figure of the witch.
Overview
My research focuses on the cultural history of seventeenth-century England, with particular interests in the following areas:
- History of madness and melancholia; madness and gender; madness in autobiographical writing
- Early modern subjectivity; memory and the self, especially in relation to self-writing
- Early modern witchcraft, with particular reference to historiography and the cultural meanings of witchcraft in later periods, including witchcraft and psychoanalysis
As UEL Director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, a partnership between UEL, Birkbeck University of London and Queen Mary University of London, I am one of the organisers of the international conference 'Radical Histories/ Histories of Radicalism', held in London, June 30-July 3 2016.
I am a convenor of two seminars at the Institute of Historical Research: 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' and 'Psychoanalysis and History'.
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Research
Publications
AHRC network ‘Memory and Community in Early Modern
Britain’, 2012-2014, £30,000 (fec).
This project, run under the ‘Connected Communities’ highlight notice, held a series of symposia addressing theoretical and methodological issues, memory practices, life writing, and contemporary representations of the early modern. I was Principal Investigator; the co-investigator was Ramona Wray, Queens University Belfast, and other members of the steering group were Kate Chedgzoy, Newcastle University, and Elspeth Graham, Liverpool John Moores University. We are currently co-editing a special issue of the journal Memory Studies which will be based on papers given in the course of the project (forthcoming 2018).
Funding
Interests
Portfolio
I currently teach on the BA History degree, where I contribute to modules on early modern history and on the history of witchcraft, and on the BA English degree, where I teach a module on early modern literature (1540-1680). I also teach on the MA Heritage Studies, and supervise a number of PhD students. I am happy to supervise in any of my areas of interest (see Research).