Don Hedrick

Professor Emeritus / Graduate Faculty
Ph.D. 1974, Cornell University

Email: hedrick@ksu.edu
Office: English/Counseling Services Bldg. 113
Phone: (785) 532-2160

Fields of interest:
Shakespeare; Drama; Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Women's Studies; Film; Literature and the Environment.

Read the official retirement citation in recognition of Don Hedrick's contributions to the department, the college, and the university.


Don Hedrick, Professor of English, is the departmental Shakespearean, and has published in Shakespeare and Renaissance studies, and teaches courses in film, popular culture, language, cultural studies, horror and violence, and gender. He has recently published Shakespeare Without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital with Bryan Reynolds (St. Martins Press, 2000). He was founding director of the department's Program in Cultural Studies; has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, Colgate University, and Amherst College; was a recent Fulbright Scholar at Charles University in Prague; and has directed student tours to London and Prague.