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Dr Adam Hansen

Assistant Professor

School: Humanities and Social Sciences

ADSS Adamhansen Staffprofile 255After a BA at Oxford and an MA and PhD at York, I taught at several universities (York, Oxford, Queen's Belfast), and abroad (in Poland and Macedonia), before coming to Northumbria in 2007.

Campus Address

Office: Lipman 411



  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Macbeth in/and Class: Socioeconomics, Pedagogy, Tragedy, Hansen, A. 11 Sep 2026, Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Macbeth, New York, United States, Modern Language Association of America
  • Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers: Modern Friends by Richard Wilson, London, Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2025, ix + 421 pp., £81.00 (hardback), ISBN: 9781350433854, Hansen, A. 3 Apr 2026, In: Shakespeare
  • Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion. Arden Shakespeare. By Bradley J. Irish, Hansen, A. 1 Dec 2024, In: Shakespeare Quarterly
  • Revisiting Revenge Tragedy: New Perspectives, Hansen, A., Prandoni, M., Van Der Haven, C. 6 Dec 2024
  • Vision and Vengeance in The Changeling, Hansen, A. 6 Dec 2024, Revisiting Revenge Tragedy, Leiden, Netherlands, Brill
  • Assessing Marlowe in Context, Hansen, A. 22 Dec 2023, In: Journal of Marlowe Studies
  • Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare: Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now. Edited by Hillary Eklund and Wendy Beth Hyman, Hansen, A. 25 Feb 2023, In: English
  • Curating Shakespeare in the North, Hansen, A. 1 Jan 2022, Memorialising Shakespeare, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan
  • Shakespeare and Folk, Hansen, A. 1 Apr 2022, Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Music, Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • Desire: A Memoir. By Jonathan Dollimore, Hansen, A. 9 Aug 2021, In: English
  • Education PGCHET December 01 2007
  • English PhD September 01 2000
  • English MA September 01 1998
  • Fellow (FHEA) Higher Education Academy (HEA) 2007

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