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Shaun Hughes
Professor, Department of English
Office Phone: (765) 494-3775
Office Fax: (765) 494-3780
Email: sfdh@purdue.edu
Specialization: Old Norse/Icelandic and Early Modern Icelandic Literature and Culture, Old and Middle English Language and Literature, History of the English Language, British Literature, Postcolonial Literature and World Literatures.
Shaun F. D. Hughes received a M.A (Hons.) from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in 1967 and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1972. He first taught at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and joined the faculty of the English Department at Purdue in 1972. He has been Visiting Lecturer in Scandinavian, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University (1978) and Guest-Professor in the Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg im Breisgau, FRG (1998-99). Among the places his articles have appeared are Archivum Linguisticum, English Renaissance Prose, Forum (Ball State), JEGP, Library Resources and Technical Services, Lutheran Education, Mediæval Scandinavia, Modern Fiction Studies, Parergon, Scandinavian Studies and World Englishes. He has guest edited four special issues of Modern Fiction Studies, "Modern New Zealand / Australian Fiction" (1981), "V. S. Naipaul" (1984), "Postcolonial African Fiction" (1991) and “J. R. R. Tolkien” (2004). His most recent publications include: “‘Skin Signifiers, Signifying Skin.’: Making Visible Women’s Tattooing in Sia Figiel’s They Who Do Not Grieve,” Visual Culture, ed. Monika Schmitz-Emans and Gertrud Lehnert (Heidelberg: Synchron, 2008); an essay review on Tolkien and Modernity 1-II, ed. Frank Weinreich and Thomas Honegger (Zollikofen, Berne: Walking Tree Publishers, 2006) in Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review 5 (2008); and six entries (“Beowulf Anonymous [ca. 1000]”; “Dream of the Rood Anonymous [10th century]”; “Ofermod”; “Old English Language [Overview]”; “Old Norse/Icelandic Eddas and Sagas”; “Wergild”) in The Facts On File Companion to British Poetry before 1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer (New York: Facts on File, 2008). He is affiliated with the Program in Comparative Literature, Medieval Studies, and the Graduate Program in Linguistics.