Charles William Hagelman

Background

Charles William Hagelman was born on November 9, 1920, in Houston, Texas. He lived and worked primarily within the academic institutions of Texas and the American Midwest, combining teaching with scholarship on English literature.

Education

Hagelman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas, a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Texas. He also undertook postgraduate study at Washington University and the Virginia Military Institute. The University of Texas provided the principal institutional setting for his undergraduate and doctoral education, while Columbia University connected his graduate work with the established literary and humanistic traditions of a major New York research university.

Career

Hagelman began teaching English at Columbia University as a part-time instructor from 1946 to 1947. He then taught at Muhlenberg College from 1947 to 1951 and again from 1953 to 1955. Muhlenberg, founded in the nineteenth century as a college associated with Lutheran educational traditions, represented the liberal-arts college environment in which much American undergraduate instruction in English was conducted during the period.

Achievements

• Hagelman helped develop Northern Illinois University's English department after joining the university in 1967. He participated in the department's expansion of graduate education and in the establishment of the professional structure associated with its Ph.D. program.

• Hagelman was recognized as a scholar of the Romantic period, with research and editorial work devoted to writers including Lord Byron, John Keats, and Mary Wollstonecraft.

Works

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• article

  • Victorian Thinking

    (An article by Hagelman published in PMLA, the journal of ...)

    1977

• dissertation

  • John Keats and the Medical Profession

    (Hagelman's doctoral dissertation examined medical trainin...)

    1956

• edited book

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

    (Edited by Hagelman with an introduction, chronology, and ...)

    1967

• reference book

  • A Concordance to Byron's Don Juan

    (Co-edited with Robert J. Barnes, this extensive concordan...)

    1967

Religion

Hagelman was associated with African Gospel, an affiliation represented within the modern religious landscape of Christianity and gospel-oriented worship. African Gospel traditions commonly connect Christian belief with congregational singing, preaching, testimony, and communal religious practice.

Views

Hagelman's scholarship reflects a sustained interest in the relationship between literary language, historical context, and the intellectual traditions of British Romanticism. His editorial work on Mary Wollstonecraft and his studies of Byron and Keats placed literature within broader questions of education, medicine, political thought, and human freedom.

Membership

Hagelman belonged to a range of professional and learned organizations associated with English studies, literary scholarship, and academic teaching. His memberships included the Modern Language Association, the Midwest Language Association, the South Central Language Association, the Keats-Shelley Association, the Byron Society, the Conference of College Teachers of English, Phi Kappa Phi, and Sigma Tau Delta.

• Modern Language Association , United States

• Served on the executive committee from 1972 to 1974, as vice president from 1977 to 1978, and as president from 1978 to 1979.

  Midwest Language Association , United States

  1972 - 1974

• South Central Language Association , United States

• Keats-Shelley Association , United States

• Byron Society , United States

• Served as past president.

  Conference of College Teachers of English , United States

• Phi Kappa Phi , United States

• Sigma Tau Delta , United States

Interests

• British Romantic literature and literary concordances

• Writers

  John Keats, Lord Byron, Mary Wollstonecraft

Connections

The supplied family records identify Anna as Hagelman's mother and Charles as his father.

Father:

Charles

Mother:

Anna

References

• Northern Illinois University Department of English history Documents Hagelman's role in the development of Northern Illinois University's English department and its doctoral program, as well as the scholarship established in his name.
• Northern Illinois University English scholarships and awards Documents the Charles W. Hagelman Jr. Scholarship Fund supporting students in English who study in England through the university's Oxford summer program.
• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, WorldCat record Documents Hagelman's editorial role and introduction for the 1967 Norton edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's work.
  1967
• Texas A&M University Libraries catalog record for John Keats and the Medical Profession Documents Hagelman's doctoral thesis, John Keats and the Medical Profession.
  1956