Hugh Grady
Professor of English
grady@arcadia.edu
Hugh Grady has been teaching English since 1973. He was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia, and did his undergraduate work as an English major at Fordham University, Bronx, New York.
After one year as a VISTA volunteer and another as a high school teacher of French and English in Houston, Texas, he took a Masters degree in English in 1972 and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature in 1978 from the University of Texas at Austin.
After graduate school he taught part-time and worked at Gale Research (now Thompson Gale) in Detroit, Michigan, as a senior assistant editor for the critical anthology Shakespearean Criticism. In 1985 he accepted a position as Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia and moved in 1987 to Arcadia University, where he was tenured in 1994 and promoted to full professor in 1999. He has served as Department Chair and has taught a number of different classes in writing, literature and critical theory at the undergraduate and M.A. levels. He was named Arcadia Professor of the Year for 2001-02 and was co-winner of the Ellington Beavers Intellectual Inquiry Award in 1990 and sole winner in 2004. In 2004 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend for research.
Research Interests
He has published extensively in the field of Shakespeare studies, with some 30 journal and anthology articles, three monographs, and two critical anthologies. He is now completing the manuscript of a new book with the working title “Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics.”
View Dr. Grady's Curriculum Vitae.
Recent Publications
Hugh Grady, Terence Hawkes (Eds.). 2006. Presentist Shakespeares. In Series: Accents on Shakespeare, Routledge. Link
Hugh Grady. Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet. Oxford University Press. 2002. Link, PDF excerpt
Hugh Grady (Ed.). 2000. Shakespeare and Modernity: Early Modern to Millennium. In Series: Accents on Shakespeare. Routledge. Link
Hugh Grady. Shakespeare’s Universal Wolf: Studies in Early Modern Reification. Oxford University Press. 1996. Link
Hugh Grady. The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World, Oxford University Press. 1994. Link
Grady, H. (2006). Afterword: Montaigne and Shakespeare in Changing Cultural Paradigms. The Shakespearean International Yearbook, 6:170-81.
Recent Presentations
Grady, H. (July 16-21, 2006). Politics and Aesthetics in Timon of Athens. Panel on Radical Aesthetics: Shakespearean Form in a Material World. World Shakespeare Congress. Brisbane, Australia.
Grady, H. (April, 2006). Hamlet and the Present: Notes on the Moving Aesthetic 'Now': Modernism and Postmodernism. Seminar Paper presented at the Seminar on Modernism and Theatrical Performance, Annual Meeting, Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, PA,
Grady, H. (Jan. 17, 2006). Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics: 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream'. Ropes Lecture at the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.
