Daniel Hanna, PhD

Biography

Dr. Hanna, Assistant Professor of Spanish and French, holds a PhD in French Literature from Princeton University, where his dissertation research focused on the reception and imitation of 16^th-century Spanish convent poetry in 17^th-19^th-century France and Belgium. For more than a decade Dr. Hanna has worked as a researcher and teacher in the area of Spanish and French languages and literatures. He has served as Assistant Professor of Spanish and French at Frederick Community College, Lake Forest College (Illinois) and Towson University. At Lake Forest College Dr. Hanna served as interim coordinator of the Paris Study Abroad Program and as Chair of the Latin American Studies Program.

Selected Publications

• “Las verdaderas del Carmelo: Multilingual Carmelite Poetry in the Early Modern Low Countries”. Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire, In Press.
• “Songs at the Scaffold: Teresa of Avila and the Carmelites of Compiègne”. Literature and Belief, In Press.
• “The Arrow and the Ecstasy: The Rhetoric of Rapture in French Carmelite Poetry”. Journal of Early Modern Christianity, 2023, Volume 10, Issue 2.