Emily Hodgson Anderson

Emily Hodgson Anderson is a professor of English at University of Southern California, where she specializes in topics related to 18th-century British literature and culture. She is the author, most recently, of Shakespeare and the Legacy of Loss (2018), and and Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Writing Life, forthcoming with Columbia University Press in 2025.. She has received fellowships from the Huntington Library, the British Academy, and the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, and her work has appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, PMLA, and numerous other academic journals.