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H. T. Hamann attended New York University, where she received a B.F.A. in Film & Television Production and Dramatic Writing from Tisch School of the Arts, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, and a Certificate in Anthropological Filmmaking from NYU’s Center for Media, Culture, and History. Ms. Hamann is actively involved with her alma mater. She is a founding member of the Tisch East Alumni Council and a member of the School of Arts and Science’s Young Alumni Leadership Circle.
She is the author of a work of literary fiction, Anthropology of an American Girl, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about a young woman growing up in the midst of the transition from the Vietnam era to the Reagan era. The novel won a “Notable Fiction Award” from Writers Notes (2004) and Foreword Magazine named it a Book of the Year “Fiction Finalist” (2003). Anthropology was cited for its “gorgeous language and brilliant observation” by Ms. Magazine, and it was called a “magnificently intense love story” by Romantic Times Book Club, which awarded the book “Top Pick” status, plus four-and-a-half stars, the magazine’s highest rating. The book is available in as many as 200 American libraries.
Ms. Hamann is contributor to and the editorial director of Categories—On The Beauty of Physics (2006), a multidisciplinary educational tool that employs art and literature to broaden the reader’s understanding of challenging material. The book liberates traditional physics from the confines of academia and opens it up to the masses. Categories—On The Beauty of Physics received a “Regional Design” award from PRINT Magazine (2006), and Foreword Magazine’s “Education Book of the Year” (2005). Two more Categories books are in the planning stages: Categories—On The Beauty of Biology and Categories—On The Beauty of Chemistry.
Ms. Hamann is completing Think Cinema, a book that uses classic cinema to investigate cultural history, visual aesthetics, and issues surrounding media and the public interest. There will also be a serialized version for children.
She has spoken about writing and the importance of originality in creative expression at colleges in the United States including Boston University, George Mason University, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, University of California-Berkeley, and Barnard College, where she kicked off the Spring 2004 Books Etc. reading series with a lecture and a reading from her novel, Anthropology of an American Girl. Books Etc., initiated in the fall of 2003, has featured some of today's most celebrated writers, including Pulitzer Prize-winners Jhumpa Lahiri, Anna Quindlen, and Alice Walker.