Field-Of-Study: English Literature

Frances E. Dolan

 Frances E. Dolan grew up in Chicago and earned her PhD at the University of Chicago. She got her first teaching experience as a Harper Instructor of College Humanities at the University of Chicago. She then taught for fourteen years at Miami University in Ohio before leaving the Midwest for California, where she promptly made

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Louis Booker Wright

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1928: Wright, Louis Booker: Appointed for studies of the reflection of contemporary ideas in English drama before 1642, principally in the British Museum and the Public Record Office, London; tenure, twelve months from September 1, 1928. Born March 1, 1899, in Greenwood County, South Carolina. Education: Wofford College,

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Linda Woodbridge

 A specialist in English Renaissance literature, Linda Woodbridge began her academic career in the Department of English at the University of Alberta after finishing her studies at UCLA (B.A., 1966, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1970).  While there, she wrote one of the very first feminist essays on Shakespeare, “Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in

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George W. Williams

George Walton Williams, born in Charleston, South Carolina, attended Yale University and, for his doctoral training, the University of Virginia. He studied under Professor Fredson Bowers, specializing in editorial procedures and textual criticism. Since receiving his degree, he has been on the faculty of the English Department at Duke University, serving as Chair from 1982

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