English Department People

Hannibal Hamlin, Associate Professor

Having grown up largely in Canada, I worked for many years as a singer, specializing in Early Music, and later as a high school teacher, also serving on the Executive of the Toronto Council of Teachers of English, before returning to academia. My scholarly interests focus on Renaissance literature and culture, especially Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton, the Bible as/and/in literature, metrical psalms, and lyric poetry. Allusion (biblical and poetic) is also a topic explored in much of my work. I have written Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature (Cambridge, 2004) and articles and reviews in Renaissance Quarterly, Spenser Studies, The Sidney Journal, The John Donne Journal, The Yale Review, The Spenser Review, and Early Modern Literary Studies. I also have book chapters in Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same , The Sacred and Profane in English Renaissance Literature, and The Blackwell Companion to the Bible and English Literature, and others forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (3rd ed.). With Margaret Hannay, Michael Brennan, and Noel Kinnamon, I edited The Sidney Psalter: Psalms of Philip and Mary Sidney (Oxford World’s Classics, 2009).

I've served as discipline representative for English literature (2003-2006) on the Council of the Renaissance Society of America and am currently a member of the Executive Committee of the International Spenser Society as well as Book Review Editor and Associate Editor for Reformation. In 2004 I was given the Award for Excellence in Scholarship (2004), The Ohio State University, Mansfield, and my fellowships include a Francis Bacon Foundation Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2002), a National Humanities Center Fellowship (2007-2008, declined), an NEH Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2007-2008), and a Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship from the ACLS (2008-2009).

My current projects include a book on Shakespeare and the Bible, a guest edited forum for Religion & Literature on Poetry and Devotion, and a number of activities related to the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible in 2011: co-editing and contributing to a collection of essays, The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic and Cultural Influences (under contract with Cambridge), organizing a major conference at OSU for May 2011, and curating an exhibition jointly mounted by the Folger and Bodleian Libraries.

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