Elaine Tuttle Hansen

Staff Information

Role

Executive Director

Organization

Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University

Bio

Elaine Tuttle Hansen is the executive director at the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University. She previously served as president of Bates College in Lewiston, ME, and as provost and professor of English at Haverford College, in Haverford, PA, and taught at the Hamilton College in Clinton, NY. Prior to that, she was an associate editor of the Middle English Dictionary at the University of Michigan.

Hansen is a past president, and current member, of the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship and a recipient of the Lindbach Teaching Prize. She has served on the Modern Language Association’s Delegate Assembly and on the Committee on Academic Freedom and Professional Rights and Responsibilities. Her current Board service includes the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU), Maine Public Broadcasting (MPBN), and The University of Maine School of Law, and she is a member of the executive committee of The Annapolis Group.

Hansen earned her bachelor's degree in English from Mount Holyoke College, a master's in English literature from the University of Minnesota, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Washington. The author of Mother Without Child: Contemporary Fiction and the Crisis of Motherhood (1997), Chaucer and the Fictions of Gender (1992), Reading Wisdom in Old English Poetry (1988), and numerous literary critical articles and reviews, she brings a strong focus on liberal arts, interdisciplinarity, and diversity issues to the Carnegie Board.