Biography

Clark Hulse is Associate Chancellor and Vice Provost for Graduate and Continuing Education and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois at Chicago. At UIC he holds appointments as Professor of English and Art History, and in 1992 was Visiting Professor of Art History at Northwestern University.  Twice he has served as Interim Director of the Center for Renaissance Studies at the Newberry Library (1986, 1995).

Prof. Hulse received his B.A. degree from Williams College (1969) and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Claremont Graduate University (1970, 1974).  His research specialties are Shakespeare, Renaissance literature, and visual culture.  He is the author of three books, Elizab eth I: Ruler and Legend (University of Illinois Press, 2003), The Rule of Art: Literature and Painting in the Renaissance (University of Chicago Press, 1990), and Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic (Princeton University Press, 1981). A co-edited collection of essays, Early Modern Visual Culture: Representation, Race and Empire in the English Renaissance, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in October, 2000.  His articles on Renaissance literature and visual culture have appeared in PMLA, Shakespeare Survey, Studies in Philology, Studies in English Literature, English Literary Renaissance, Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, and The Journal of the J. Paul Getty Museum, as well as in significant collections, such as Rewriting the Renaissance  (1986), The Historical Renaissance  (1988) and The Production of English Renaissance Culture  (1994).  Work in progress includes a  book about verbal and visual portraiture in the age of Henry VIII, including the works of Hans Holbein, Thomas Wyatt, and Thomas More.

Prof. Hulse has held research fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the British Academy, and research grants from the College Art Association.  In 1990 he was President of the Spenser Society.  Active in the area of public humanities, he has worked on projects with Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and serves on the Boards of Directors of the Illinois Humanities Council and the Chicago Humanities Festival.  In 2003 he curated an exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of Elizabeth I, running at the Newberry Library in Fall, 2003.  A concurrent traveling exhibition is sponsored by the American Library Association.  The project is supported by two major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.  The accompanying online exhibition won the 2004 Lieb Prize for outstanding web exhibition from the Association of Research Libraries.

Prof. Hulse has regularly taught courses on Shakespeare, sixteenth century literature, literary theory, and visual culture, and has received UIC's Teaching Recognition Award. In 1986-87, he and three fellow faculty members conducted a two-year, NEH-funded project to develop new models for an introductory literature sequence. He has written articles on teaching the humanities in a multimedia and technological environment, and has led faculty workshops on the uses of technology.