Harrison Ross Steeves

Harrison Ross Steeves also in the spelling variant Harrison R. Steeves (born April 8, 1881 in New York City , New York , † August 1, 1981 in Kingston , Washington County , Rhode Island ) was an American English graduate and professor .

Life

Family and education

The native New Yorker Harrison Ross Steeves, the son of John Francis Steeves and his wife Imogene née Upson, turned to the study of English at Columbia University after attending the public schools , in 1903 he acquired the academic degree of a Bachelor of Arts there , in the following year those of a Master of Arts , 1913 took place its graduation to the Ph. D.

Harrison Ross Steeves married Jessie nee Hurd on June 16, 1906, from whom he divorced in 1947. From this marriage came the children Imogene Hurd and Harrison Ross junior. On January 28, 1947, he married Edna R. nee Leake. Harrison Ross Steeves died at the age of 100 in Kingston , Rhode Island , in the summer of 1981 .

Professional background

Harrison Ross Steeves received positions as assistant and lecturer at Columbia College, Columbia University , the year after completing his Master of Arts degree . Steeves was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1913 , Associate Professor in 1919 , and Full Professor of English in 1926 . He was also head of the English Department from 1926, and in 1949 he was officially retired. Harrison Ross Steeves also served in the National Conference on Uniform Entrance Requirements in English, which he chaired from 1925 to 1931, and from 1919 to 1920 as President of the College Conference on English in the Central Atlantic States. Steeves was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and the Theta Delta Chi.

Harrison Ross Stevens, a teacher of Jacques Barzun , was particularly successful in his specialty in English short stories. In 1972 he received the honorary doctorate D.Litt. from Columbia University.

Fonts

• Teaching composition through the cultivation of ideas; a plan which has been followed at Columbia with great success, New York, 1912
• Learned societies and English literary scholarship in Great Britain and the United States, in: Columbia university studies in English and comparative literature, Columbia University Press, New York, 1913
• together with Frank Humphrey Ristine: Representative essays in modern thought; a basis for composition, American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati [etc.], 1913
• together with Charles C. Fries, James Holly Hanford: The teaching of literature, Silver, Burdett and Co., New York, Newark [etc.], 1926
• Literary aims and art, Silver, Burdett and Co., New York, Newark [etc.], 1927
• Plays from the modern theater, DC Heath and Co., Boston, New York [etc.], 1931
• with Samuel Henley, Horace Walpole , William Beckford , Ann Ward Radcliffe : Three eighteenth century romances: The castle of Otranto; Vathek; The romance of the forest, C. Scribner's Sons, New York, Chicago [etc.], 1931
• Good Night Sheriff, Random House, New York, 1941
• Before Jane Austen ; the shaping of the English novel in the eighteenth century, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1965
• Tying flies with foam, fur, and feathers, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2003

literature

• Columbia College (Columbia University): A History of Columbia College on Morningside, in: Bicentennial history of Columbia University, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954, p. 74.
• Thomas W. Ennis: Harrison Steeves died at 100; Taught English at Columbia,, in: The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 12, New York Times & Arno Press, New York, 1981, p. 1140. Retrieved August 14, 2013
• Who was who in America. : volume VIII, 1982-1985 with world notables , Marquis Who's Who, Chicago, Ill., 1985, p. 381.
• Michael J. Marcuse: A reference guide for English studies, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1990, p. 190.

Web links

• Literature by and about Harrison Ross Steeves in the WorldCat bibliographic database