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Robert W. Hanning

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Robert W. Hanning
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1972)
Academic background
EducationColumbia University (BA, PhD)
University of Oxford (BA)
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval Literature
InstitutionsBread Loaf School of English
Columbia University

Robert W. Hanning is an American medievalist. He is an emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.[1]

Biography

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Hanning received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1958.[1] He then received a Kellett Fellowship to study at the University of Oxford.[2] Hanning obtained a PhD from Columbia University in 1964.[1] From 1961 to 2004, Hanning taught English and comparative literature at Columbia.[3] His scholarship focused on medieval English literature.[4]

Hanning taught at the Bread Loaf School of English and directed the program at Lincoln College, Oxford in 1980, 1984, 1986.[5]

Hanning received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 as well as an ACLS, NEH, and Rockefeller Fellowship.[6][7] He was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America and a trustee of the New Chaucer Society.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Robert W. Hanning | The Department of English and Comparative Literature". english.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  2. ^ Columbia College (Columbia University). Office of Alumni Affairs and Development; Columbia College (Columbia University) (1958). Columbia College today. Columbia University Libraries. New York, N.Y. : Columbia College, Office of Alumni Affairs and Development.
  3. ^ "Robert W. Hanning | Research Cluster on Science and Subjectivity". rcss.scienceandsociety.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  4. ^ Hanning, Robert W. (2022-01-06). Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World: Agency in the Decameron and the Canterbury Tales. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-289475-5.
  5. ^ a b "Robert W. Hanning | Emeritus Professors in Columbia". professorsemeritus.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  6. ^ "Robert W. Hanning". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
  7. ^ "NEH grant details: Chaucer's Language Games: Society as Art in the CANTERBURY TALES". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-01.