Professions: Emeritus Professor of English and State University of New York Exchange Scholar; international authority on Robert Burns and the cultural history of 18th century Scotland; taught at Harvard University, the University of Colorado, St. Stephen's Episcopal School (Austin, TX), the University of South Carolina (Columbia), Kansas State University (Manhattan), and the State University of New York at New Paltz, where he chaired the department of English and World Literature; served overseas with U.S. Naval Intelligence as both a translator and interrogator.
Awards: Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, grantee of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, grantee of the American Council of Learned Societies, and inclusion in "Who's Who in America"; first professor to be singled out by the Graduate School of Kansas State University as a foremost teacher; at the University of South Carolina he was the first recipient of the Donald Russell Price for illustrious scholarship.
Degrees: Ph.D. Harvard, 1949; A.M. Harvard, 1943; M.A. Western Reserve University; B.A. Wesleyan University.
Death: October 24, 2006 in Cheraw, S.C.
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