Robert W. Hanning
Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature

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Robert W. Hanning

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Robert W.Hanning. CC '58, BA Oxon 1960, MA Oxon 1964, PhD Columbia.1964.? Taught in E&CL as grad student 1961-63, full time (Instructor through Professor) 1963-2006.? Major field, medieval English and comparative literature. Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.? ACLS, Guggenheim,and HEH Fellowships; Rockefeller Fellowship to Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio.? 1998 Biennial Chaucer Lecturer, New Chaucer Society, Paris, La Sorbonne.??The Vision of History in Early Britain?(1966),?The Individual in Twelfth-Century Romance?(1977),?Serious Play: Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and? Ariosto?(2010);?The Lais of Marie de France?(co.translated. with Joan Ferrante,1978),?The Romance of Thebes?(co-translated with Joan Ferrante, 2018);?Castiglione: The Real and the Ideal in Renaissance Culture?(co-edited with David Rosand,1983). 1989-2005, created and taught undergraduate course, "'Race' and Racism: Literary Representation of an American Crisis."