Michael Hancher

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Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations

“Dead Letters: Wills and Poems.” : Hancher, Michael, Texas Law Review, 60 507-25, 1982.
The Number Trade at Blackie and Son: Hancher, Michael, Publishing History, 55 37–67, 2004.
Nathan Bailey: Hancher, Michael, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 60 vols 3: 268–70, 2004.
Familiar Quotations: Hancher, Michael, Harvard Library Bulletin, n.s. 14 13–53, 2003 (2004).
An Imagined World: The Imperial Gazetteer: Hancher, Michael, Ed. Julie Codell, Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Imperial Co-Histories: National Identities and the British and Colonial Press, 45-67, 2003.
Littera scripta manet: Blackstone and Electronic Text: Hancher, Michael, Studies in Bibliography, 54 115-52, 2001 (2003).
A Missive Missile: Hancher, Michael, Ed. Nancy Lewis Tuten and John Zubizarreta, Westport, CT: Greenwood, The Robert Frost Encyclopedia, 209-10, 2000.
From Street Ballad to Penny Magazine: 'March of Intellect In the Butchering Line': Hancher, Michael, Ed. Laurel Brake, David Finkelstein, and Bill Bell, Basingstoke, Eng.: Palgrave, Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities, 93-103, 2000.
Reading the Visual Text: A Christmas Carol: Hancher, Michael, Yale University Library Gazette, 74 21-40, 1999.
Gazing at The Imperial Dictionary: Hancher, Michael, Book History 1, 156-81, 1998.

Vice-president, Dictionary Society of North America: 2007 - 2009
Chair: Department of English, University of Minnesota , 2003 - 06
Associate Dean for Faculty and Research: College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota , 1996 - 2000
Director of Graduate Studies: Department of English, University of Minnesota , 1983 - 1988
Professor of English, University of Minnesota: 1982
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