Robert W. Hanning | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) |
Academic background | |
Education | Columbia University (BA, PhD) University of Oxford (BA) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Medieval Literature |
Institutions | Bread 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]
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]
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