Will Hamlin, professor of English at Washington State University, has been named a 2008 Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City. He is one of 190 artists, scientists and scholars to receive a 2008 Guggenheim; successful candidates were chosen from more than 2,600 applicants.
“I’m deeply honored to have been chosen as a Guggenheim Fellow,” said Hamlin. “There are few organizations for which I have greater respect. The Guggenheim Foundation has been supporting the arts and humanities for almost a century, funding poets, historians, musicians and scholars all over North and South America.”
Hamlin, 51, has been a faculty member at WSU since 2001, and the director of English Graduate Studies since 2003. He teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature at WSU.