Andrew Hook

Who is Andrew Hook?

Andrew Hook, FBA, FRSE, is Emeritus Bradley Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University.

Having graduated from Edinburgh University in 1954, he completed national service and went on to graduate study at Manchester and Princeton universities. He received his doctorate from Princeton in 1960. His teaching career divided almost equally into a decade at Edinburgh, a decade at Aberdeen, and almost two decades at Glasgow. After retiring from Glasgow he has been a Visiting Fellow in the Princeton English Department and has subsequently taught at Dartmouth College, the College of Wooster in Ohio, and St. Thomas University in Minneapolis—St. Paul. Throughout his career he has taught courses in English, Scottish and American literature.