Dr. Nikolina Hatton

About:

Nikolina Hatton’s second book (Habilitation) investigates early modern Englishwomen’s use and integration of biblical source texts into their devotional poetry. The project looks at biblical verse by Mary Sidney Herbert, Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Southwell, Hester Pulter, and Lucy Hutchinson, exploring the relationship between form, devotional practice, and political expression. The project draws attention to the distributed authorial agency in these works, as poets put the biblical text to use while expecting, in turn, to be transformed by their attentive reading and responding to scripture.

Research Interests:

Women’s writing
Devotional Poetry
Manuscript and Print Culture
Violence in Literature
New Materialism
History of the Novel

Employment History

Since Oct. 2019 Postdoctoral lecturer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
2019                STAY! Bridging Stipendium for Postdoctoral Researchers, University of Freiburg
2015-2018        PhD Researcher, Research Assistant, University of Freiburg (with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann)
2013-2014        Research Assistant, University of Freiburg (with Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik)

Current Projects

• Leader of the Seminar, “Violent Women in Early Modern Drama.” Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting. 19-22 March 2025. Boston. (With Lara Ehrenfried)

•  Co-Editor of the special issue Early Modern Futures of Anglistik 36.3 (2025). (With Lara Ehrenfried and Cord-    Christian Casper)

•  Co-Organizer of the Online Workshop Series, “Women Writing Violence.” 3-4, 10-11 April 2025. (With Sophie Franklin and Lara Ehrenfried)

Publications:

Books

•  Hatton, Nikolina. The Agency of Objects in English Prose, 1789-1832: Conspicuous Things. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.

•  Hatton, Nikolina, Virginia Mastellari and Sara Hobe (Eds.) Hacks, Quacks & Impostors: Affected and Assumed Identities in Literature. Rombach Verlag, 2019.

Articles

•  Hatton, Nikolina. (forthcoming) “Politics and Isolation in Seventeenth-Century Women’s Writing in English.” An der Peripherie? Europäische Autorinnen der Frühen Neuzeit bis heute, edited by Corinna Dziudzia und Kirsten von Hagen. Edition FONTE. Hannover: Wehrhahn.

•  Hatton, Nikolina. 2024. “‘My soul, why art thou full of trouble’: Hester Pulter’s Apostrophe to the Soul.” Poetica, vol. 54, no. 3–4, pp. 282–300. https://doi.org/10.30965/25890530-05434003.

•  Hatton, Nikolina. 2023. “Hester Pulter’s Psalmic Poems.” Renaissance Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 364¬–83. https://  doi.org/10.1111/rest.12821.(open-access)

•  “Lists in Thomas De Quincey’s Life Narratives: Evidence and Arbitrary Selection.” A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2020, pp. 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2020.1815373.

•  “A Tale of Two Pianos: Actants, Sociability, and Form in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Open Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2019, pp. 135–47. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0012.

Reviews

•   Hatton, Nikolina. 2024. Review of Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture by Richard Meek (2023). Renaissance Quarterly. Vol. 77, no. 4.

•  Hatton, Nikolina. 2024. Review of Shakespeare’s Mothers and Daughters by Florian Neunstöcklin (2023). Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35 no. 3, pp. 193-195.

•  Hatton, Nikolina. 2023. Review of The Dark Bible by Alison Knight (2022). Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, vol. 260, no. 2, pp. 424–25.

Select Talks

•  "Biblical Framing in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Psalms.” 21 Feb. 2025. FNZ: Frühe Neuzeit Kolloquium. HU Berlin. Organized by Anne Enderwitz and Susanne Scholz.

•  “Biblical Framing in Early Modern Women’s Poetry.” 12 Dec. 2024. Guest Lecture. University of Amsterdam.

•  “Tyranny, Uncertainty, and the Self in Greville’s Mustapha and Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam.” 6 Dec. 2024. Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity. LMU Munich. Organized by Claudia Olk, Cord-Christian Casper and Nikolina Hatton.

•  “Violence, Sympathy, and Militant Puritanism in Anne Bradstreet’s ‘A Dialogue Between Old England and New.’” 28 June 2024. Lyric Communities: Conflict and Assent. FU Berlin. Organized by Laura Banella, Francesco Giusti, and Nicolas Longinotti.

•  “Politics and Isolation in the Poetry of Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson.” 15 Feb. 2024. An der Peripherie? Europäische Autorinnen der Frühen Neuzeit bis heute. Organized by Corinna Dziudzia and Kirsten von Hagen.

•  “Social Networks and Dangerous Political Opinions in Times of War: Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson.” 6 October 2023. Beziehungsweise(n) dichten Freundinnenschaft in der europäischen Literatur des 17. Jahrhunderts. Transphilologische Jahrestagung ‚Femmes de Lettres‘ im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (FONTE-Stiftung). HU Berlin.

•  “Selection and Ventriloquizing as Biblical and Social Commentary: The Case of Anne Southwell’s Miscellany Notebook.” 13 July 2023. Kommentieren als Kulturtechnik. Relationalität– Medialität– Resonanz. Symposium des Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreises Frühneuzeitforschung. Wolfenbüttel, Germany.

•  “Biblical Reversals of Fortune in the Political Poetry of Hester Pulter and Lucy Hutchinson.” 2 Dec. 2022. RSA Virtual 2022.

•  “‘My soul, why art thou full of trouble’: Hester Pulter’s Apostrophes to the Soul.” 4 May 2022. REFORC Annual Meeting, Free University, Berlin, Germany.

•  “‘Her body is divided from her head’: Offstage Violence in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam (1613).” Workshop session with Cord Christian Caspar and Lara Ehrenfried. 25 March 2022. Adapting Violence in/from ‘Classic’ Texts Workshop (online). University of Bern, Switzerland.

•  “’Am I a yookffelowe, or slaue’: Anne Southwell’s Poetry and the Limits of Female Agency.” 20 April 2021. RSA Virtual Annual Meeting.

•  “‘A bundle of cursed law papers for a pillow’: Recalcitrant Matter and Middle-Class Subject Formation in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater.” 19 February 2019. Dinggeschichten der Neugierde. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich.

•  “‘He scorned to share his fame with his tailor’: Anti-Consumption in Silver Fork Novels and the Anxieties of a Struggling Aristocracy.” 19 May 2017. NAVSA/AVSA Conference, NYU Florence, Italy.

•  “‘A happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print shops!’: Consumerism and the Sociability of Things in Jane Austen.” 23 March 2017. MatteReality, FRIAS, Freiburg, Germany.

•  “Objects as ‘Actants’ in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821): Nonhuman Resistance to Autobiography.” 1 Sept. 2016. BAVS: Consuming the Victorians, Cardiff University, Wales.