Professor Clare Hanson

English
School of Humanities
Avenue Campus
University of Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON
SO17 1BJ

Position: Professor

Location: 65A/2031
Extension: 22470
Telephone: (023) 8059 2470

Email Professor Clare Hanson

Research interests

My research interests are in the relationship between literature and science, in 20^th and 21^st century women’s writing, and in Modernism and the short story. I would be happy to supervise PhD working students in any of these areas. My most recent monograph was an interdisciplinary study which explored changes in the ways in which pregnancy was constructed and experienced in Britain between 1750 and the present day.

Research projects

I am currently working on a study of eugenics in post-war Britain, assessing the nature and extent of the impact of eugenic thought in this period.

Publications

Books

A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture in Britain, 1750-2000 (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave, 2004), 214 pp. Forthcoming in translation for Peking University Press.

Hysterical Fictions: The Woman’s Novel in the Twentieth Century (Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 2000), 191 pp.

Virginia Woolf, Macmillan Women Writers Series, 1994, 212pp.

Editor, Introduction and contributed chapter, Re-reading the Short Story Basingstoke: Macmillan; New York: St Martin’s Press, 1989), 137pp.

Editor and Introduction, The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield (Macmillan: Basingstoke, 1987)

Short Stories and Short Fictions1880-1980 (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1985), 189pp, Reprinted 1987. Excerpt reprinted in Modern Critical Views: Elizabeth Bowen, ed. Harold Bloom, (New York: Chelsea House, 1987), pp.139-151.

(With Andrew Gurr) Katherine Mansfield (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1981), 146pp. Translated into Japanese, 1982; excerpt reprinted in Suman Gupta and David Johnson (eds), A Twentieth-Century Literature Reader: Texts and Debates (London and New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 32-34.

Articles

‘Biopolitics, Biological Racism and Eugenics’, in Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave (eds), Rethinking Foucault in an Age of Terror (Palgrave, 2008), pp. 106-17

‘Bestselling Bodies: Mourning, Melancholia and the Female Forensic Pathologist’, Women: a Cultural Review19: 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 87-100

‘Reproduction, Genetics and Eugenics in the Fiction of Doris Lessing’, Contemporary Women's Writing 1. 1/2 (December 2007), 171-184

'The Epiphany from the Other Side: Stories of Confinement', Short Story 14. 2 (Fall 2006), 65-74

‘Fiction, Feminism and Femininity from the 80s to the Noughties’, in Emma Parker (ed.), Contemporary British Women Writers (Essays and Studies 56, published by Boydell and Brewer for the English Association, 2004), pp. 16-27.

‘Save the Mothers? Representations of Pregnancy in the 1930s’, Literature and History, 12. 2 (Autumn 2003), 51-61.

‘The Raw and the Cooked: Barbara Pym and Claude Lévi-Strauss’, in Jane Dowson (ed.), Women’s Writing 1945-1960: After the Deluge (Palgrave, 2003), pp. 205-16.

‘Dis/figuration in the Stories of Jean Stafford’, Yearbook of English Studies, 31 (2001), pp. 109-17.

‘Little Girls and Large Women: Representations of the Female Body in Elizabeth Bowen’s Later Fiction’, in Body Matters, edited by Avril Horner and Angela Keane (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), pp.185-198. Reprinted in Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004).

‘During Mother’s Absence: The Fiction of Michèle Roberts’, in British Women Writing Fiction, ed. Abby Werlock (Alabama University Press, 2000), pp. 229-47.

‘Marketing the Woman Writer’, in Judy Simons and Kate Fullbrook (eds.) Writing: A Woman’s Business (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998), pp.66-80.

‘Looking Within: Women’s Writing in the Modernist Period, 1910-40’, in Marion Shaw (ed.), An Introduction to Women’s Writing (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall/Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1997), pp. 203-34.

‘“The Red Dawn Breaking over Clapham”: Carter and the Limits of Artifice’, in Joseph Bristow and Trev Broughton (eds), The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter (Harlow: Longman, 1997), pp.59-72.

‘Virginia Woolf in the House of Love: compulsory heterosexuality in The Years’, Journal of Gender Studies, 6. 1 (March 1997), 55-62.

‘The Lifted Veil: Women and Short Fiction in the 1880s and 1890s’, Yearbook of English Studies, 26 (1996), 135-42. Reprinted in Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2004).

Radio Interview for a programme on Rudyard Kipling on Radio 4, June 1994. Broadcast Autumn 1994, repeated Summer 1997.

‘“As a Woman, I have no Country”: Woolf and the Construction of National Identity’, in Tracey Hill and William Hughes (eds), Contemporary Writing and National Identity (Bath: Sulis Press, 1995), 54-64.

‘”Katherine Mansfield’s journal covered with dust”: the post-modern short fiction of Elizabeth Taylor’, Journal of the Short Story in English, 22 (Summer 1994), 92-103.

‘Was wollen feministische Literarturwissen-schaftlerinnen?’ (‘What Does a Feminist Critic Want?’), Feministische Studien 8. 2 (November 1990), 55-69.

Contributing Editor on Katherine Mansfield for Bonnie Kime Scott (ed.) The Gender of Modernism (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 298-315. Introduction and bibliography preceding a selection of Mansfield’s work.

‘Stephen King: Powers of Horror’, in Brian Docherty (ed.), American Horror Fiction (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), pp.135-154.

‘The Short Story as a Late Twentieth-Century Form’, Visions Critiques (Paris, Spring 1989), pp. 289-296.

‘Limits and Renewals: the meaning of form in the stories of Rudyard Kipling’, in Phillip Mallett (ed.), Kipling Considered (Macmillan 1989), pp. 85-97. Extract reprinted in Harold Bloom (ed.), Rudyard Kipling (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004), pp. 128-31.

‘Katherine Mansfield’s Life as a Work of Art’, in Paulette Michel and Michel Dupuis (eds), The Fine Instrument (Denmark: Dangaroo Press, 1989), pp. 61-70.

‘Katherine Mansfield: Daring to Criticise’, P.N. Review 57 (145. 1, June 1987), pp.53-6, excerpt reprinted from Introduction to The Critical Writings of Katherine Mansfield.

‘Each Other: Images of Otherness in the Short Fiction of Doris Lessing, Jean Rhys and Angela Carter’, Journal of the Short Story in English, 10 (Spring 1988), pp. 67-82.

‘Doris Lessing in pursuit of the English, or, No Small, Personal Voice’, in Claire Sprague (ed.), In Pursuit of Doris Lessing: Nine Nations Reading (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 61-73. Also published in P.N. Review 60 (14. 4, January 1988), pp. 39-42.

‘“Things out of Words”: Towards a Poetics of Short Fiction’, in Hanson (ed.) Re-reading the Short Story, as above, pp. 22-33.

‘Clarice Lispector: A New Eve?’ P.N. Review 52 (13. 2, August 1986), pp. 43- 45.

‘The Woman Writer as Exile: Gender and Possession in the African Stories of Doris Lessing’, in Critical Essays on Doris Lessing, eds. Claire Sprague and Virginia Tiger (Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 1986), pp. 107-14.

‘Free Stories: the Shorter Fiction of Doris Lessing’, Doris Lessing Newsletter, 9. 1 (Spring 1985), pp. 7-8, 14.

‘Katherine Mansfield and Symbolism: the “artist’s method” in Prelude’, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 16. 1 (August 1981), pp. 25-39.

Biographical notes

I joined the Department of English at Southampton in 2006, having previously taught at the University of Gloucestershire, the University of Leicester and at Loughborough University, where I was Professor of English. I have taught on a wide range of courses in twentieth-century literature at undergraduate and at MA level, and have supervised 12 PhDs to successful completion. I am a Fellow of the English Association, and a founding member and member of the steering group of the Contemporary Women’s Writing Network (http://www.cts.dmu.ac.uk/cwwn/). I am also an Associate Editor and Reviews Editor for the journal Contemporary Women’s Writing (http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/cww/ ).

Teaching responsibilities for Professor Clare Hanson
Module title	Module code	Discipline	Role
The Twentieth Century Body	ENGL6076	English Studies	Course leader
Dissertation	ENGL3016	English Studies	Tutor

Publications from e–Prints Soton

	Hanson, C. (2008) Biopolitics, biological racism and eugenics. In, Morton, Stephen and Bygrave, Stephen (eds.) Foucault in an Age of Terror: Essays on Biopolitics and the Defence of Society. Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 106-117.
	Hanson, Clare (2008) Bestselling bodies: mourning, melancholia and the female forensic pathologist. Women: A Cultural Review, 19, (1), 87-100. (doi:10.1080/09574040801920011)
	Hanson, Clare (2008) Bestselling bodies: mourning, melancholia and the female forensic pathologist. Women: A Cultural Review, 19, (1), 87-100. (doi:10.1080/09574040801920011)
	Hanson, Clare (2007) Reproduction, genetics, and eugenics in the fiction of Doris Lessing. Contemporary Women's Writing, 1, (1-2), 171-184. (doi:10.1093/cww/vpm008)
	Hanson, Clare (2007) Reproduction, genetics, and eugenics in the fiction of Doris Lessing. Contemporary Women's Writing, 1, (1-2), 171-184. (doi:10.1093/cww/vpm008)
	Hanson, Clare (2004) A cultural history of pregnancy: pregnancy, medicine and culture 1750-2000, Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave, 224pp.
	Hanson, Clare (2004) Fiction, Feminism and Femininity: From the Eighties to the Noughties. In, Parker, Emma (ed.) Contemporary British Women Writers. Woodbridge, UK, Boydell and Brewer, for the English Association, 16-27. (Essays and Studies).
	Hanson, Clare (2003) 'The Raw and the Cooked': Barbara Pym and Claude Levi-Strauss. In, Dowson, Jane (ed.) Women’s Writing 1945-1960: After the Deluge. Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave, 205-216.
	Hanson, Clare (2003) Save the mothers? Representations of pregnancy in the 1930s. Literature and History, 12, (2), 51-61.
	Hanson, Clare (2001) Dis/figuration in the stories of Jean Stafford. Yearbook of English Studies, 31, (1), 109-117.