Ithaca College

This month, Paul Hansom, Assistant Professor of English, will publish his newest work of fiction and appear as a featured performer in a local production of one of William Shakespeare’s history plays.

Hansom's short story “The Great Divide” is a vernacular Western about a yarn-spinner who just can’t find an ear, and it will appear in the February 2015 issue of Five Quarterly. Hansom will also be playing Lord Ross in the Ithaca Shakespeare Company’s upcoming production of Richard II. All shows will be at the Hangar Theatre, from Feb 13-15, and 19-21.

Paul Hansom joined the English Department in August of 2005, and regularly teaches genre courses on drama and science fiction as well as a first-year literature course on characterization and psychology entitled “Oh Cruel World”: The Literary Character in Crisis.  He has an MFA from USC, and his creative work has appeared in venues like New Letters, Chicago Quarterly, Storyscape Journal, the Southern California Anthology, and many others. He’s been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Sundance Arts-Writing Fellowship, and has won the PEN/West John Rechy Fellowship.