Robert W. Hanning is an American medievalist. He is an emeritus professor of English and Comparative Literature at

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Biography

Hanning received his B.A. from

in 1958. He then received a

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to study at the

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. Hanning obtained a PhD from

in 1964. From 1961 to 2004, Hanning taught English and comparative literature at Columbia. His scholarship focused on medieval English literature. Hanning taught at the Bread Loaf School of English and directed the program at

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in 1980, 1984, 1986. Hanning received a

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in 1972 as well as an ACLS,

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, and

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. He was elected a fellow of the

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and a trustee of the New Chaucer Society.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanning, Robert W. Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Columbia College (New York) alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Alumni of the University of Oxford Columbia University faculty Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America ACLS Fellows Fellows of the National Endowment for the Humanities Rockefeller Fellows American medievalists Middlebury College faculty