ELLIS HANSON
Professor of English
Cornell University
Education:
Princeton University
PhD English
Columbia University
MA English
Vassar College
BA
English
Books:
Knowing Children: Cinema and the Sexual Child, current project
Exquisite Pain: Aestheticism and Suffering, current project.
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, Duke University Press, 1999, edited anthology.
Decadence and Catholicism, Harvard University Press, 1997.
Articles:
"Cinema a tergo: Shooting in Elephant.” Leo Bersani: Queer Theory and Beyond. Ed. Mikko Tuhkanen.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2015.
"Style at the Fin de Siècle: Aestheticist, Decadent, Symbolist." Oscar Wilde in Context. Eds. Kerry
Powell and Peter Raby. London: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
"Salomé, Simile, Symboliste." Decadent Poetics: Literature and Form at the British Fin de Siècle. Eds.
Jason David Hall and Alex Murray. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
"The Languorous Critic." New Literary History, 43.3 (2012).
"Wilde's Play." Victorian Studies 54.3 (2012).
“The History of Digital Desire, vol. 1: An Introduction.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101.3 (2011).
“The Child as Pornographer.” South Atlantic Quarterly 101.3 (2011).
“Aught an Eunuch Has.” Shakesqueer. Ed. Madhavi Menon. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
“The Future’s Eve: Reparative Reading after Sedgwick.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 101.1 (2010).
“Teaching Shame.” Gay Shame. Ed. David Halperin and Valerie Traub. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2008.
“Queer Theory.” The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd edition. Ed. Imre
Szeman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
“Desire and Interpretation in The Exorcist.” Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children. Ed. Natasha Hurley
and Steven Bruhm. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.
“Confession as Seduction: The Queer Performativity of the Cure in Sacher-Masoch’s Venus im Pelz.”
Performance and Performativity in German Cultural Studies. Ed. Andrew Webber. London:
Peter Lang, 2003.
“Screwing with Children in Henry James.” GLQ , vol. 9, no. 2 (2003).
“Wilde’s Exquisite Pain.” Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions. Ed. Joseph Bristow. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 2002.
“Cultural Studies: My New Symposium,” Arts and Sciences Newsletter, Cornell University, Spring 2001.
"Oscar Wilde and the Scarlet Woman." The Bible in Gay and Lesbian Culture. Ed.Raymond-Jean Frontain.
New York: Harrington Park Press, 1997.
"The Telephone and Its Queerness." Cruising the Performative. Eds. Philip Brett, Sue-Ellen Case, and
Susan Foster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award.
"Technology, Paranoia and the Queer Voice." Screen, vol. 34, no. 3, 1993.
"Sodomy and Kingcraft in Urania and Antony and Cleopatra." Homosexuality in Renaissance and
Enlightenment England: Literary Representations in Historical Context. Ed. Claude Summers.
New York: Harrington Park Press, 1992.
"Narcissism and Critique." Critical Matrix, v. 6, no. 2, 1992.
"Undead." Inside/Out. Ed. Diana Fuss. New York: Routledge, 1991. Winner of the Crompton-Noll Award.