Ellis Hanson, Professor of English at Cornell University, did his graduate work at Princeton University where he received his Ph. D. in 1994.
Books:
Exquisite Pain: Aestheticism and Suffering, new project.
Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film, Duke University Press, 1999, edited anthology.
Decadence and Catholicism, Harvard University Press, 1997.
Articles:
“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.