OSU English professor named Guggenheim Fellow

Oklahoma State University English professor J.C. Hallman is one of 175 scholars, artists and scientists in the U.S. and Canada to be awarded a Fellowship from the John Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
“The selection process for the Guggenheim Fellowship involves more than 3,500 applicants and is quite rigorous,” Hallman says. “I am honored to have been selected.”

Hallman was selected as a 2013 Fellow for his creative non-fiction work that he describes as “part history, part journalism and part travelogue.”

The foundation awarded Hallman more than $40,000 for his research project, which will focus on the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the African country of Swaziland. The epidemic is one of the major challenges to Swaziland’s socioeconomic development.

Hallman’s books include The Chess Artist, The Devil is a Gentleman, The Hospital of Bad Poets, In Utopia and Wm & H’ry.
To learn more about Hallman and his books go to http://www.JCHallman.com or http://www.WilliamandHenryJames.blogspot.com. The OSU Department of English is one of 24 in the College of Arts and Sciences. To learn more visit http://cas.okstate.edu.

At OSU since 2011, Hallman is an assistant English professor in the creative writing program. Prior to OSU, he taught at several universities including the University of Pennsylvania, University of St. Thomas and St. Joseph’s University. A native of California, he studied at the University of Pittsburg, University of Iowa and Johns Hopkins University.