Arthur E. Christy

Arthur E. Christy
Competition: US & Canada
Columbia University
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1935–36:
CHRISTY, ARTHUR EDWARD: Appointed for the preparation of a book, in the main a survey of the consequences, primarily for Western Europe, of the process by which the world has become Europeanized; to be based upon the notes and lectures of the late Professor William R. Shepherd; tenure, twelve months from September 1, 1935.
Born December 17, 1899, in China. Education: Wheaton College, A.B., 1922; University of Chicago, Summer, 1922; Columbia University, A.M., 1925, Ph.D., 1932.
Instructor in English, 1925–27, University of Minnesota; Instructor in English, 1927–29, New York University; Instructor in English, 1929—, Columbia University.
Publications: Images in Jade: Translations from Classical and Modern Chinese Poetry, 1929; The Oriental in American Transcendentalism, 1932. Editor, Henry David Thoreau’s Transmigration of the Seven Brahmans, 1932. Articles in American Literature, Monist, Open Court, The Aryan Path.
Photograph credit: Bachrach