Andrew Hiscock

Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar Award - University of California Irvine

Andrew Hiscock is Professor of Early Modern Literature and a former Dean at Bangor University, Wales. He is a Fellow of the English Association, Research Fellow at the Institut de Recherche sur la Renaissance, l’Âge Classique et Les Lumières, Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry and a former Marie Skŀodowska-Curie research fellow. Throughout his career, his research has been focused on differing aspects of literary culture and social debate in Tudor and Stuart Britain and how they found their place within the European renaissance, Early America and the wider world. During the period of his Fulbright award at University of California – Irvine, Andrew will be researching into questions of hospitality, reception and welcome in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature and how these enquiries can pose thorny challenges for the twenty-first century.

In the course of his time at UCI, Andrew is looking forward to discovering more about American university life, the richness of American archives and, equally importantly, the diversity of American society. More generally, Andrew hopes to be able to draw on his own professional and personal experience to make a contribution to the communities he encounters during the time of his award and to return to the UK sharing the fruits of this experience by consolidating collaborations, partnerships and friendships that have been forged.