Michael Hancher

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English

112 Pillsbury Hall

310 Pillsbury Dr. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Collegiate Affiliation

English

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Educational Background & Specialties

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Educational Background

: , Birkbeck College, University of London, 1965–66 (Fulbright fellow)
A.B. magna cum laude: English, Harvard College, 1963 -
M.A.: English, Yale University, 1964 -
Ph.D.: English, Yale University, 1967 -

Specialties

book history
digital humanities
Victorian studies
lexicography
pragmatics, literature, and the law

Publications

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Publications

"Illustrating Webster." Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 31 (2010): 1-45. Project MUSE.
"Dictionary vs. Encyclopedia, Then and Now".Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 40 (2019): 113-38. Project MUSE.
"Re: Search and Close Reading." Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016. Ed. Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016. 118-38. Digital Conservancy.
"Grafting A Christmas Carol." SEL: Studies in English Literature 48 (2008): 813-27. Project MUSE. Reprinted in Victorian Hybridities: Cultural Anxiety and Formal Innovation. Ed. U. C. Knoepflmacher. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. 73-85.
"Learning from LibriVox." Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies. Ed. Matthew Rubery. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2011: 199-215. Taylor & Francis Online.
"Definition and Depiction." Word and Image 26 (2010): 244-72. Taylor & Francis Online.
The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books. 2nd ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2019. Advertisement.
"Reading and Writing the Law: Macaulay in India. Law and Language. Ed. Michael Freeman and Fiona Smith. Current Legal Issues 15. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 187-200. Oxford Scholarship Online.
“College English in India: The First Textbook.” Victorian Literature and Culture 43 (2014): 553–72. Cambridge Core.
“Dickens’s First Effusion.” Dickens Quarterly 31 (2014): 285–97. ProQuest.
Digital Dictionaries: Introduction.” Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 35 (2014): 272–74. Project MUSE.

Activities

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Activities

Professional

Director of Graduate Studies: Department of English, University of Minnesota. 1983 - 1988
Chair: Department of English, University of Minnesota. 2003 - 2006
Associate Dean for Faculty and Research: College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. 1996 - 2000
Co-convener, Digital Humanities 2.0 (Institute for Advanced Study) 2011 - 2013
Professor of English, University of Minnesota 1982 - present
Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota 1973 - 1982
Assistant Professor of English, University of Minnesota 1972 - 1973
Assistant Professor of English, The Johns Hopkins University 1967 - 1972
President, Dictionary Society of North America 2009 - 2011
Vice chair, Faculty Consultative Committee 2012 - 2013
Member, National Board of Directors, University of Minnesota Alumni Association 2012 - 2013
Member, Publications Committee, Dictionary Society of North America 2007 - 2016
: Member, editorial board, Centrum: Working Papers of the Minnesota Center for Language, Style, and Literary Theory, 1973–83; editor, 1973–77; co-editor, 1979–83.
: Member, editorial board, Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. 2000 - present

Awards

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Awards

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1977 - 1978
Scholar of the College, CLA, University of Minnesota, 1990 - 1993
Grants-in-aid, sabbatical leave supplements, and Imagine Fund awards, University of Minnesota, various years
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowship, 1966 - 1967
Fulbright Fellowship, Birkbeck College, University of London, 1965 - 1966
President's Award for Outstanding Service, University of Minnesota, 2014

Courses

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Courses

EngL 8170, Seminar in Nineteenth-century British Literature and Culture
RECENT COURSES:
EngL 4722, Alphabet to Internet: History of Writing Technologies
EngL 3007H, Shakespeare
EngL 3960W, Senior Seminar: The Image on the Page
EngL 3010H, Studies in Poetry: American Poetry from Phillis Wheatley to Now
EngL 5150, Readings in 19th-Century Literature and Culture
EngL 4721, Electronic Text
ENGL 3161H, Victorian Literatures and Cultures
EngL 8510, Studies in Criticism and Theory: Digital Humanities