Everett Hamner

Program: English Ph.D.
Began program in 2003
Office: n/a
E-Mail: everett-hamner@uiowa.edu

After completing a BA in English and Spanish at Johns Hopkins, Everett Hamner spent three years earning a Master of Arts in Teaching and torturing students with Shakespeare and other horrors at a Baltimore private school. Thirty minutes of exhausted bedtime reading proved insufficient, however, and he moved on to Regent College at the University of British Columbia, where he completed a wide-ranging Master's degree in literature, philosophy, and religion. He was attracted to Iowa by faculty members sharing this interdisciplinary approach and by several with particular expertise in science fiction and technoculture studies. He has presented conference papers on Ursula Le Guin and Mary Doria Russell, and his published work includes essays on Percy and Sartre (Christianity and Literature 52.2), Gadamer and Rilke (Renascence, forthcoming), and Le Guin (Time, Freedom, and Utopia, forthcoming).