Topic: Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Leader: Dr. Benedict Whalen, Kingfisher Fellow in Residence at the Valor Institute and Associate Professor of English at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Benedict Whalen is the Valor Institute’s Kingfisher Fellow in Residence for the 2021-2022 academic year. Dr. Whalen currently serves as an associate professor of English at Hillsdale College. Much of his teaching is in the literature of the Renaissance, including especially the works of Shakespeare and his fellow playwrights. He also regularly teaches courses on English Renaissance lyric poetry, including the metaphysical poets. For his excellence in teaching, Ben was awarded Professor of the Year at Hillsdale for the 2019-2020 academic year.