Graham L. Hammill
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Specialty
English Renaissance literature; literary and psychoanalytic theory
Degrees
B.A., Louisiana State University; Ph.D., Duke University
Profile
Graham Hammill specializes in literature of the long sixteenth century. He is the author of Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon, which examines how homosexuality emerged as both a problem and a promise at the limits of humanist aesthetics. He has also published essays on Renaissance drama, science, painting, and lyric; on Lacan and Heidegger; and on queer theory. He is currently working on a book entitled A Poetics of Political Theology: The Mosaic Constitution from Marlowe to Spinoza, which explores rhetoric, aesthetics, and the development political theology in early modern literary and political writings. In addition, he is working on a series of essays on political thought in late sixteenth-century literature.
Selected Publications
“Time for Marlowe.” ELH, in press.
“Psychoanalysis and Sexuality.” Shakespeare Studies 33 (2005): 73-79.
“‘The Thing / Which Never Was’: Republicanism and The Ruines of Time.” Spenser Studies 18 (2003): 165-83.
“Are We Being Homosexual Yet?” Umbr(a) (2002): 71-85.
Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Recent Honors and Awards
Kaneb Center Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2006.
Contact Information
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
(574) 631-6618
ghammill@nd.edu