Dr Andrew Gordon
Programme Co-ordinator for English, Co-Director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies
BA (UNL), MA (Sussex), PhD (Queen Mary's, London)
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272626 |
| E-mail: | a.gordon@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | Taylor Building, B07 Office Hours during term Mon 10-11 pm, Thurs 1-2 pm |
Biography
Andrew Gordon (BA, MA, PhD) is Lecturer in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature. He is Co-Director of Aberdeen's interdisciplinary Centre for Early Modern Studies. He is also founder of the peripatetic Early Modern Studies in Scotland Seminar, which is held twice a year in a Scottish university.
Research Interests
He has published widely on aspects of the literature and culture of early modern London, from the representation of civic space, the practice of libel, and the cultural meaning of the city's inn signs, to the work of John Stow and Thomas Middleton. He is the author of Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community (Palgrave, 2013). His work on city mapping led to collaboration with Bernhard Klein on the collection Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge 2001, paberback 2011). His work on urban community gave rise to a collaborative project with Trevor Stack Citizenship Beyond the State, an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the importance of early modern conceptions of citizenship for the present day. With Thomas Rist he has recently edited a new collection of essays entitled, The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2013).
He has also worked extensively on the manuscript culture of early modern England, exploring practices of letter-writing and letter-circulation in early modern England. This research has resulted in studies of the correspondence of Francis Bacon, and the manuscript afterlife of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex and other forthcoming work. He collaborated with James Daybell in the organisation of Cultures of Correspondence, a series of events staged at the universities of Aberdeen and Plymouth. He is co-editor (with Daybell) of New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Correspondence a special issue of Lives and Letters, the journal based at the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (UCL). He previously worked on the Francis Bacon Correspondence Project, for the Oxford edition of Bacon's works.
Recently supervised PhDs include work on drama and equity, and on pedagogical literature and exchange in the sixteenth century. Current doctoral students are woking on various projects including the old wives tale in early modern literature.
Selected Publications
BOOKS
- Writing Early Modern London: Memory, Text and Community (Palgrave, Early Modern Literature In History, forthcoming 2013).
- The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England: Memorial Cultures of the Post-Reformation
- co-edited with Thomas Rist (Ashgate, Material Readings in Early Modern Culture, forthcoming 2013).
- Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain
- co-edited with Bernard Klein (Cambridge University Press 2001, paperback 2011). See the introduction.
JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES
- New Directions in the Study of Early Modern Correspondence
- A special issue of the journal Lives And Letters Vol 4, no. 1 (2012), co-edited with James Daybell.
- Citizenship Beyond the State
- A special issue of the journal Citizenship Studies (2007), co-edited with Trevor Stack.
- See the co-written introduction, 'Citizenship Beyond the State: Thinking with Early Modern Citizenship in the Contemporary World'
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
- 'The Ghost of Pasquill: The Comic Afterlife and the Afterlife of Comedy on the Elizabethan Stage'
- in The Arts of Remembrance in Early Modern England ed. Gordon and Thomas Rist (Ashgate, forthcoming 2013).
- 'Essex's Last Campaign: The Fall of the Earl of Essex and Manuscript Circulation'
- in Essex: The Cultural Impact of an Elizabethan Courtier, ed. Lisa Hopkins and Annaliese F. Connolly (Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2013).
- 'John Stow', 'Richard Grafton', and 'Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex'
- in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Literature ed. Alan Stewart and Garrett Sullivan jr (Blackwells, 2012).
- 'The Puritan Widow and the Spatial Arts in Middleton's Urban Drama'
- in Thomas Middleton in Context ed. Suzanne Gossett (Cambridge University Press 2011).
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'Donne and Late Elizabethan Court Politics'
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in Oxford Handbook of John Donne ed. Jeanne Shami, Tom Hester and Dennis Flynn (Oxford University Press 2011), 460-70.
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- 'Copycopia, or, the uses of copied correspondence in court culture: A case study'
- in Material Readings of Early Modern Culture: Texts and Social Practices, 1580-1700 ed. James Daybell and Peter Hinds (Palgrave 2010), 65-81.
- '"A fortune of Paper walls": the letters of Francis Bacon and the earl of Essex'
- English Literary Renaissance 37:3 (2007), 319-336.
- '"If my sign could speak"; the signboard and the visual culture of early modern London'
- Early Theatre 8.1 (2005), 35-51. Downloadable pdf file appears courtesy of Early Theatre, and is also available via: http//www.itergateway.org/
- 'Overseeing and Overlooking: John Stow and the Surveying of the City'
- in John Stow (1525-1604) and the Making of the English Past, ed Ian Gadd and Alexandra Gillespie (British Library 2004), 81-88.
- 'The Act of Libel: Conscripting Civic Space in Early Modern England'
- Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 32:2 (Spring 2002), 375-397. Downloadable pdf file appears courtesy of JMEMS.
- 'Performing London: the map and the city in ceremony'
- in Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain, ed. Gordon and Klein, 69-88.
