Hannah Crummé

As Head of Special Collections and College Archivist, Dr. Crummé is eager to help students, faculty, and outside researchers access the unique materials held at Lewis & Clark. These include documents of historical import, rare books that demonstrate how text has been accessed and transmitted over time, and archives that trace the trajectory of individuals, families, and institutions.

As College Archivist, Dr. Crummé is the keeper of documents that witness the history of Lewis & Clark College. She is always keen to chase up papers from the archive that can tell us more about our past. Beyond this, she works with departments across campus to consider how our moment will be remembered and save the documents that tell this story.

Dr. Crummé completed her doctoral research at King’s College, London in 2015. Her work focuses on the impact of the Spanish language on the development of poetic and political ideas of the Sidney-Herbert-Dudley network. Her work has appeared in Notes and Queries (2009), the Journal for the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies (2011), The Politics of Female Households: Ladies-in-Waiting across Europe (Brill, 2013), Studies in Philology (2017), and The Routledge Companion to Public Humanities Scholarship (2024). Her reviews appear regularly in the Times Literary Supplement. Dr. Crummé has also edited several collections, including Re-examining the Literary Coterie, 1580-1780 (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016), Shakespeare on Record: Researching an Early Modern Life (Arden, 2017), and Building Representative Community Archives: Inclusive Strategies in Practice (ALA, 2024). Her edition of The Life and Papers of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria (1538-1612), will appear with the University of Toronto Press in 2025.