Subdivision
• | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | [X] |
| 1 | Name: | Prof. Edward Toner Cone | | Institution: | Princeton University | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1917 | | Death Date: | October 23, 2004 | | | |
2 | Name: | Dr. A. Walton Litz | | Institution: | Princeton University | | Year Elected: | 1991 | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | Residency: | Resident | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | Birth Date: | 1929 | | Death Date: | June 4, 2014 | | | | | Arthur Walton Litz was Holmes Professor of English Emeritus at Princeton University, on whose faculty he served since 1958. One of the foremost scholars and critics of modern English and American literature, especially the novels and poems of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Jane Austen, Dr. Litz authored a number of essays, articles and books, including The Art of James Joyce (1961), Modern Literary Criticism (1972) and Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens (1972). He held a D. Phil. degree from Oxford University and also taught at Bryn Mawr College, Swarthmore College, Temple University and Bread Loaf School. A Rhodes Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow, Dr. Litz also served as associate editor of the 63-volume Joyce Archive as well as on the editorial boards of the Princeton University Press and Oxford University Press. He was honored with awards including the Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching (1972) and Princeton's Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities (1981). He died June 4, 2014, at the age of 84 in Princeton. | |
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