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Hannibal Hamlin Wins Three Fellowships
The old adage about good things coming in threes certainly holds true for Hannibal Hamlin, Associate Professor of Renaissance Literature at Ohio State Mansfield. Hamlin recently found out he’s the recipient of three major fellowships: the 2007-2008 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; the Summer 2008 Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California; and the 2008-2009 Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars from the American Council of Learned Societies. The monetary awards top $120,000.
The fellowships are all in support of his book project, tentatively entitled Shakespeare and Biblical Culture. “I’m studying the biblical allusions in Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan society,” Hamlin said. The research involves hours spent poring over critical commentary, sermons, artwork, and other written and visual texts from the time period.
Hamlin, who earned his Ph.D. in Renaissance Literature from Yale University, is the author of Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature, and multiple articles and reviews in Renaissance Quarterly, Spenser Studies, The Yale Review, and others. When not pursuing his scholarly interests, Hamlin pursues his musical ones. He sang for a number of years as a professional soloist and ensemble singer in Toronto, specializing in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque-style music, and performed in New Haven and New York City before coming to Ohio.
Hamlin will spend the next two years in Washington D.C. and San Marino, C.A., before joining the faculty at the Columbus campus starting in the 2009-2010 Academic Year.
