Robert W. Hamblin

Bobby ("Robert") Wayne Hamblin (born November 5, 1938)[1] is a poet, an author, and a professor emeritus at Southeast Missouri State University. He is best known for his achievements related to the works of William Faulkner.

Early years

Born in Jericho, Mississippi, Hamblin grew up in Brice's Cross Roads. He attended Baldwyn, Mississippi, public schools and graduated from Booneville High School in Mississippi. After attending Northeast Mississippi Community College, he graduated from Delta State University in 1960 with a bachelor's degree in English education. He went on to gain his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Mississippi in 1965 and 1976, respectively.[1]

Career

Hamblin entered the teaching profession at Sparrows Point High School in Baltimore County, Maryland, where he taught English and coached baseball.[1] He began teaching at Southeast Missouri State in 1965[2] and became the founding director of the Center for Faulkner Studies at the university[3] in 1989.[4] In 1978 Hamblin met the renowned Faulkner collector Louis Daniel Brodsky and for the next 36 years, until Brodsky's death, the two men collaborated on books, articles, exhibits, lectures, and other public programs based on the materials in Brodsky's Faulkner collection.

His interest in Faulkner began when Hamblin was in graduate school. As integration occurred at the University of Mississippi, "Faulkner helped me," he said, through the author's treatment of "racial justice, equality and brotherhood and atoning for the sins of the past."[5] Both his master's thesis and his doctoral dissertation focused on topics related to Faulkner.[6]

In addition to Hamblin's classroom teaching, he led seminars for the Missouri Humanities Council[4] and the National Endowment for the Humanities and lectured and led seminars about Faulkner across the United States and in China, England, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, and Taiwan. In 2005, he was the leader of Oprah's Book Club's online discussion of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. The study was part of Oprah Winfrey's Summer of Faulkner.[1] He also edited a newsletter focused on teaching the writings of Faulkner in secondary- and university-level classes[1] and published a variety of works about the author, including Myself & the World: A Biography of William Faulkner.[7]

In addition to his writings about Faulkner, Hamblin's published works cover a variety of topics, including fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.[1] He served as poetry editor for a journal about sports literature[8] and was associate editor of a poetry magazine.[6]

Recognition

Hamblin's awards and prizes include the following:

  • His book, This House, This Town: One Couple’s Love Affair with an Old House and a Historic Town, was a candidate for the 2011 Book Prize at the University of Mary Washington.[9]
  • In 2007, he and his wife, Kaye, received the Excellence in Historic Preservation Award by Sigma Pi Kappa, the international honor society for historic preservation. The award resulted from their rehabilitation and preservation of the Harrison House in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.[10]
  • In 2006, he was awarded Southeast Missouri State University's PRIDE Award, which goes to "a faculty member who has demonstrated excellence as a teacher, an extraordinary level of scholarship and service, and whose overall accomplishments are especially noteworthy."[4]
  • In 1998, he won the Missouri Library Association's Literary Award, which recognizes "a Missouri writer or an individual who has written an outstanding book on some aspect of Missouri life."[11]
  • In 1992, he received the Willie D. Halsell Prize,[12] which is awarded by the Mississippi Historical Society "for the best article in the Journal of Mississippi History".[13]

Publications

Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen, by William Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1987. Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection. 5 vols. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1982-1988. Brodsky, Louis Daniel, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. Stallion Road: A Screenplay, by William Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Dunn, Roxanne, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. Gifts of Oneself: Art and Writings by James H. Hamby. Compiled by Roy Dawson. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University, 2016. Fargnoli, A. Nicholas, Michael Golay, and Robert W. Hamblin. A Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2008. Hahn, Stephen, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. Teaching Faulkner: Approaches and Methods. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000. Hamblin, Robert. Bless You, My Father. Independently published, 2005; Reissued, 2018. Hamblin, Robert. Crossroads: Poems of a Mississippi Childhood. St. Louis: Time Being Books, 2010. Chinese edition: Trans. Li Lulu and others; ed. Li Changlei and Wang Xiumei. School of Foreign Languages, University of Jinan, 2017. Hamblin, Robert. Darkness Descending: Love Poems for a Beloved Stricken with Alzheimer’s. Independently published, 2019. Hamblin, Robert. Dogwood Winter and Other Seasons. Rockville Centre, NY: Ars Omnia Press, 2014. Hamblin, Robert. Dust and Light: Poems, After Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Rockville Centre, NY: Ars Omnia Press, 2012. Hamblin, Robert. Epiphanies, Large and Small: Collected Poems. Independently published, 2020. Hamblin, Robert W., ed. An Evans Harrington Reader. Oxford, MS: Nautilus Publishing Company, 2018. Hamblin, Robert. From the Ground Up. St. Louis: Time Being Books, 1992. Hamblin, Robert. Keeping Score: Sports Poems for Every Season. St. Louis: Time Being Books, 2007. Hamblin, Robert. For Kaye: The Afterlife: Poems. Independently published, 2020. Hamblin, Robert. Leaving Here. Independently published, 2018. Hamblin, Robert W. Living in Mississippi: The Life and Times of Evans Harrington. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2017. Hamblin, Robert. Mind the Gap: Poems by an American in London. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2003. Hamblin, Robert W. Mississippi and Beyond. Independently published, 2019. Hamblin, Robert W. My Life with Faulkner and Brodsky. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2017. Hamblin, Robert W. Myself and the World: A Biography of William Faulkner. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2016. Hamblin, Robert W. “No Such Thing As Was”: William Faulkner and Southern History. Southeast Missouri State University: Center for Faulkner Studies, 1994. Hamblin, Robert. Perpendicular Rain. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University, 1986. Hamblin, Robert. This House, This Town: One Couple's Love Affair with an Old House and a Historic Town. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2010. Hamblin, Robert. Win or Win: A Season with Ron Shumate. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri University Foundation, 1992. Hamblin, Robert W., and Ann J. Abadie, eds. Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 2000. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. Reissued in paperback edition, 2017. Hamblin, Robert W., and Charles A. Peek, eds. A William Faulkner Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. Japanese edition: Trans. Mizuho Terrasawa. Tokyo: Yushodo Press, 2006. Hamblin, Robert W., and Christopher Rieger, eds. Faulkner and Chopin. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2010. Hamblin, Robert W., and Christopher Rieger, eds. Faulkner and Morrison. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2012. Hamblin, Robert W., and Louis Daniel Brodsky, eds. Selections from the William Faulkner Collection of Louis Daniel Brodsky. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1979. Hamblin, Robert W., and Melanie Speight, eds. Faulkner and Twain. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2009. Hamblin, Robert W., and Michael Lund. “About a little girl”: A William Carlos Williams Poem and Its Legacy. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2008. Peek, Charles A., and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. A Companion to Faulkner Studies. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2004. Rieger, Christopher, and Robert W. Hamblin, eds. Faulkner and Warren. Cape Girardeau: Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2015.

References
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  3. Hoops, Jana (July 26, 2016). "Author Q&A: Robert Hamblin". Clarion Ledger. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
  4. "Hamblin to Receive 2006 PRIDE Award". Southeast Missouri State University. November 30, 2006. Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
  5. Wittenauer, Cheryl (August 3, 2005). "Intruders in the Dust". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. Associated Press. p. E 11. Retrieved October 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
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  12. "Award Recipients". Mississippi Historical Society. Mississippi Historical Society. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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