Background
Stevens, Arthur Wilber was born on August 16, 1921 in Brooklyn. Son of Arthur Wilber and Isabella Ellen (MacGibbon) Stevens.
editor writer English literature educator
Stevens, Arthur Wilber was born on August 16, 1921 in Brooklyn. Son of Arthur Wilber and Isabella Ellen (MacGibbon) Stevens.
AB, Brown U., 1942; Master of Arts, U. Washington, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Washington, 1957.
Teaching fellow, associate, then instructor, U. Washington, Seattle, 1944-1954;
visiting lecturer, then assistant professor, Idaho State University, Pocatello, 1954-1960;
associate professor, department chairman English, 1961-1964;
Fulbright professor American and English literature, U. Mandalay (Burma) and University Chulalongkorn, Thailand, 1956-1957;
Fulbright professor American literature, U. Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, 1959;
professor, department chairman literature, Park College, Parkville, Missouri, 1964-1966;
Professor of English, chairman, Center Language and Literature Studies. Visiting professor Arizona State University, Tempe, summer 1968, State University of New York, Buffalo, summer 1971, Utah Shakespeare Festival, 1972, Baylor University, summer 1976. Visiting professor University of Pennsylvania, 1983, 84.
Dramatic and music critic Billboard, 1947-1954, Intermountain, 1954-1964, Seattle Home News, 1947-1953, Prescott Courier and The Paper, 1966-1973, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 1973-1977, Las Vegas Sun,1977-1984, Station KLAV-Radio, The Las Vegan.
Delaware Theatre Library. Association United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Conference, San Francisco, 1957. Member Nev.Humanities Committee, 1982-1988, International James Joyce Foundation.
Member Modern Language Association, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (president 1971), Conference Christianity and Literature, Music Critics Association American, Philological Association Pacific Coast (Executive Board 1978-1980), Burma Studies Group, American Theatre Critics Association, Renaissance Society American, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society, Theatre Library. Association, Brown Club (New York City), Princeton Club (New York City), Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Theta Pi.
Married Marjorie Athene Rogers, February 15, 1955 (deceased February 1979). Children: Arthur Wilber III, Christopher Rivers. Married Joan Cutuly, March 6, 1992.