PD Dr. Nikolina Hatton

2019-aktuell Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2025 Habilitation, English Literary Studies: Biblical Framing in Early Modern Women's Poetry (LMU)

2019 STAY! Bridging Stipendium for Postdoctoral Researchers, Universität Freiburg

2018 Dr. phil, Englische Philology: Conspicuous Objects: The Agency of Things in English Prose, 1789-1832 (Universität Freiburg)

2015-2018 Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin im Project "Literature, Liberalism, and the Laissez-Faire Economy, 1776-1900" (Baden-Württemberg Foundation) mit Dr. Benjamin Kohlmann (PI). Universität Freiburg

2014 M.A. English Literature and Literary Theory (Universität Freiburg)

2013-2014 Studentische Hilfskraft, Universität Freiburg (Prof. Dr. Monika Fludernik)

2009 B.A. English Literature and Writing, minor Drama (Northwest University, Kirkland, WA, USA)

Monographs and Edited Collections

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

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

Special Issues

• Hatton, Nikolina, Lara Ehrenfried, Cord-Christian Casper (eds.). 2025. Early Modern Futures. Special issue of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, 36.3.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Hatton, Nikolina, Lara Ehrenfried, and Cord-Christian Casper. 2025. “Introducing Early Modern Futures.” Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 5-11.

• 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.

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2023. “Hester Pulter’s Psalmic Poems.” Renaissance Studies, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 364­–83. (open-access)

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2021. “Lists in Thomas De Quincey’s Life Narratives: Evidence and Arbitrary Selection.” A/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 205–12.­

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2019. “A Tale of Two Pianos: Actants, Sociability, and Form in Jane Austen’s Emma.” Open Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 135–47. (open-access)

Articles in Edited Collections

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2026. “Anne Southwell’s Biblical Verse Commentary on the Decalogue.” In Kommentieren als Kulturtechnik. Relationalität – Medialität – Resonanz, edited by Tobias Bulang, Andreas Mahler, Regula Forster and Michael Klaper. Herzog- August-Bibliothek, 55-75.

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

• Hatton, Nikolina. “Framing the Senecan Heroine: Ethical Vigilance, Political Uncertainty, and the Female Subject in Fulke Greville and Elizabeth Cary.” In: Vigilance and Uncertainty in Early Modernity, edited by Claudia Olk, Cord-Christian Casper, and Nikolina Hatton. Berlin: De Gruyter. (forthcoming)

• Hatton, Nikolina. “Lyric, Sympathy, and Violence in Anne Bradstreet’s ‘A Dialogue Between Old England and New.’” In Lyric Communities: Conflict and Assent, edited by Francesco Giusti, Laura Banella, and Nicolas Longinotti. (Accepted by editors for publication).

Open-Access Digital Editions (Peer-Reviewed)

• Hatton, Nikolina. ed. 2023. “[Untitled],” by Hester Pulter (Poem 40, Amplified Edition), in The Pulter Project: Poet in the Making, edited by Leah Knight and Wendy Wall.

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2023. “Metaphors Violence in Devotional Poetry” (Curation, Poem 40), in The Pulter Project. https://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/poems/ae/my-soul-why-art-thou-full-of-trouble/#metaphors-of-violence-in-devotional-poetry

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2023. “Pulter’s Psalmic Intertexts” (Curation, Poem 40), in: The Pulter Project. https://pulterproject.northwestern.edu/poems/ae/my-soul-why-art-thou-full-of-trouble/#pulters-psalmic-intertexts

Reviews

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2026. Review of A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Roland Weidle (2025). Shakespeare Jahrbuch 162, pp. 260–262.

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2024. Review of Sympathy in Early Modern Literature and Culture by Richard Meek (2023). Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 1344–1345. https:// www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1017/rqx.2024.177

• Hatton, Nikolina. 2024. Review of Shakespeares Mothers and Daughters by Florian Neunstöcklin (2023). Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, vol. 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.

Invited Lectures

• “Narrative Patterns of Justice in 17th-Century Religious and Political Poetry.” 21 May 2025. Lunch Lecture. Center for Advanced Studies, LMU Munich.

• “The Spectrum of Agency for Early Modern Women.” 1 May 2025. Long Night of the University 2025. LMU Munich.

• “A Readerʼs Response: Anne Southwellʼs Seventeenth-Century Decalogue Poetry.” 12 April 2025. Katechismen im Spätmittelalter: Inhalte – Formen – Funktionen. Schloss Fürstenried. Organized by Magdalena Butz.

• “Biblical Framing in Early Modern Women’s Poetry.” 12 Dec. 2024. University of Ams “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. Online. Organized by Corinna Dziudzia and Kirsten von Hagen.

• “Invoking Community through Form: Hester Pulter’s Psalmic Poems.” 1 June 2022. Literaturwissenschaftliches Kolloquium, LMU Munich. Organized by Claudia Olk and Ingo Berensmeyer.

• “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 Feb. 2019. Dinggeschichten der Neugierde, Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich. Organized by Katharina Boehm.

Conference & Workshop Papers

• “Anne Wharton’s ‘A Paraphrase on the Lords Prayer’ and Natural Philosophic Imagery in Women’s Biblical Paraphrase Poetry.” 12 Dec. 2025. New Ways of Editing Women’s Scientific Literature, University of Bayreuth.

• “Anticipating Justice through Form in Mid-17th-Century Verse, or, Can you Have Your Eschatological Cake and Eat It Too?” 7 Nov. 2025. ‘Meeting with Time’: On the Religious Experience of Time in Early Modern Literature, University of Hamburg.

• “Studying Early Modern Manuscripts with Undergraduate Students: Tools for Deepening Engagment and Understanding.” 22 Sept. 2025. Anglistiktag. University of Duisburg-Essen.

• “Biblical Framing in Mary Sidney Herbert’s Psalms.” 21 Feb. 2025. FNZ Workshop. Humboldt Universität, Berlin. Organized by Anne Enderwitz and Susanne Scholz

• Roundtable Discussant. DFG Roundgespräch. “The Future of the English Major in Germany.” 12–14 Feb. 2025. University of Freiburg. Organized by Eva von Contzen, Anne Rüggemeier, and Maria Sulimma.

• “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. Lyrik Kabinett, 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.

• “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. Renaissance Society of America Online Conference.

• “‘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.

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

• “‘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.

• “The ‘Thingness’ of the Book in Production and Consumption.” 7 April 2017. EUCOR Conference, University of Basel, Switzerland.

• “‘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.

• “The Inheritance of Consumption: Attempts at Identity Creation in Kiran Desai’s Novel.” 11 April 2015. EUCOR Conference, UHA Mulhouse, France.

• “Faust, Religion, and Desire: An Analysis of Lewis’s The Monk.” 7 Dec. 2013. EUCOR Conference, University of Freiburg, Germany.

• Introduction to Literary Studies (8x)

• Introduction to Manuscripts (Upper-level block seminar)

• The Devil in English Literature

• English Manuscript Poetry

• Excursions in New Materialism (with Cord-Christian Casper)

• Medieval and Early Modern Women’s Writing

• John Milton’s Paradise Lost (MA seminar)

• Violence and Gender in Early Modern Drama (MA seminar)

• The Woman Question

• Early Modern Marriage and Family

• The Heroine in the Early Modern Period

• Crossdressing in Shakespeare, Middleton and Dekker

• Poetry of the English Civil War

• 16th and 17th Century Women Poets

• Jane Austen in Context

• The Gothic Novel

• The Romantic Period

• Romanticism in Context

• Literature of Consumption: Hats, Cravats, Opium and Emporiums

• Myths of British Identity in Contemporary Literature and Media

• Eleni Angermeir, “Colonel Brandon and Regency Masculinity in Sense and Sensibility: The Silent Hero: Emotional Endurance, Care and Alternative Masculinity” (BA Thesis, WS25/26)

• Malena Luca Lohmann, “Madness and Marriage in Sensation Novels” (BA Thesis, SS25)

• Amelie Marie, Metzger, “Animal Imagery in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth” (BA Thesis, WS 24/25)

• Janina Maria Beck, “Violent Comedy and Gender Politics in Frances Burney and Jane Austen” (BA Thesis, WS 24/25)

• Theresa Caroline Geßler, “Female Friendships in Jane Austen’s Juvenilia and Emma” (BA Thesis, WS 24/25)

• Maria Gruber, “The Responsibilities of the Eldest Daughter in Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice” (BA Thesis, WS 24/25)