Hannibal de Pencier

He received a BA and MA in art history from McGill University where he wrote about painted depictions of popular literature in late eighteenth-century London. He completed his thesis on Henry Fuseli’s literary aesthetics with the support of McGill’s Graduate Excellence Fellowship and a scholarship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. After leaving McGill, Hannibal moved to London to research the entanglement of visual art in the rise of international credit markets, focusing on networks of exchange between London and Bengal. His resulting article, “Forgery, Facsimile, and the Fabrication of Credit,” was published in Grey Room (Winter 2025). 

Beyond his academic work, Hannibal writes fiction and criticism. For some years, he worked in the Canadian reforestation industry and has planted over half a million trees.