Herbert J. Muller

Herbert J. Muller
Competition: US & Canada
Purdue University
As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1939–40:
MULLER, HERBERT JOSEPH: Appointed for the preparation of a work on contemporary literary criticism, making use both of the heritage of literary criticism and of the resources of modern knowledge of the natural and social sciences; tenure, twelve months from July 1, 1939.
Born July 7, 1905, at Mamaroneck, New York. Education: Cornell University, A.B., 1925, M.A., 1926, Ph.D., 1932.
Instructor in English, 1926–35, Cornell University; Assistant Professor of English, 1935—, Purdue University.
Publications: Modern Fiction: A Study of Values, 1937. Articles and reviews in Saturday Review of Literature, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Review, English Journal, Yale Review, Kenyon Review.