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Get to know Adam

I teach courses on Shakespeare, book history, early modern poetry and poetics, and the theory and practice of working with material texts. I have a joint appointment with the UI Center for the Book.

I am the author of Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade (Cambridge University Press, 2016). I also curated the exhibition “The Books That Made Shakespeare” here at Iowa. You can learn more and access an online version of the exhibition at shakespeare.lib.uiowa.edu.

My current research projects include “Faking Shakespeare” – a book that will provide a new critical history of Shakespearean authenticity and forgery – and “Shakespeare’s Bones” – a biography of Shakespeare that will tell new stories about the afterlives of his death.

I am also the co-director of a digital humanities project which provides a new census of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century copies of Shakespeare’s works: shakespearecensus.org.

You can read more about my teaching and research at my website Anchora — which includes several online essays, as well as some of the amazing resources, materials, and activities in book studies taking place here at Iowa: adamghooks.net.

Adam Hooks CV