Background
Cunningham, James Vincent was born on August 23, 1911 in Cumberland, Maryland, United States. Son of James Joseph and Anna Mattingly (Finan) Cunningham.
Cunningham, James Vincent was born on August 23, 1911 in Cumberland, Maryland, United States. Son of James Joseph and Anna Mattingly (Finan) Cunningham.
1 daughter, Marjorie Ann (Mistress George Lupien).
;Ann (Mistress George Lupien). Married Dolora Gallagher, March 26, 1945 (division 1949). Married Jessie MacGregor Campbell, June 3, 1950.
Student, Saint Mary's (Kansas) College, 1928.
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford, 1934, Doctor of Philosophy, 1945. Instructor Stanford, 1937-1945.
Assistant professor of University Hawaii, 1945-1946, University of Chicago, 1946-1952, University of Virginia, 1952-1953. Associate professor then Professor of English Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1953-1985, University professor, 1976-1980, emeritus, 1980-1985, department chairman, 1953-1959, 61-62, 68-69.
Chairman Brandeis U. (School Humanities), 1960-1961, 70-71.
Visiting professor Harvard, 1952, U. Washington, 1956, Indiana University, 1961, University of California at Santa Barbara, 1963, Washington University, Saint Louis, 1976. Author: The Helmsman, 1942, The Judge is Fury, 1947, Doctor Drink, 1950, The Quest of the Opal, 1950, Woe or Wonder. The Emotional Effect of Shakespearean Tragedy, 1951, The Exclusions of a Rhyme: Poems and Epigrams, 1960, Tradition and Poetic Structure, 1960, The Journal of John Cardan, 1964, To What Strangers, What Welcome, 1964, The Renaissance in England, 1967, The Collected Poems and Epigrams, 1971, Collected Essays, 1977, Dickinson: Lyric and Legend, 1980.
Guggenheim fellow, 1959-1960, 67.
National Endowment for Arts grantee, 1966-1967. Home: Sudbury, Massachusetts
Married Barbara Francesca Gibbs, June 18, 1937 (divorced 1942). Married Dolora Gallagher, March 26, 1945 (divorced 1949).