Jay Herbert Martin

Background

Martin, Jay Herbert Son of Sylvester K. and Ada M. (Smith) Martin.

Education

AB with honors, Columbia University, 1956. Master of Arts, Ohio State University, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, 1960.

Doctor of Philosophy in Psychoanalysis, Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1983.

Career

Instructor English Pennsylvania State University, 1957-1958. Instructor, then assistant to associate professor English and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, 1960-1968. Professor English and comparative culture University California, Irvine, 1968-1979.

Assistant professor psychiatry and human behavior, clinical supervisor residency program California College Medicine California College Medicine University California-Irvine, 1978—1996. Leo S. Bing professor English and American literature University Southern California, Los Angeles, 1979-1996, director undergraduate program in American studies, 1968-1969, director program in comparative culture, 1969-1971, director education abroad program, 1971-1975. Professor government, Edward S. Gould professor humanities Claremont McKenna College, since 1996.

Director civilization program Claremont (California) McKenna College, 1996—2000, acting director Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, 1998-2000, professor, English, graduate school, since 2004. Instructor psychoanalysis Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1984-1996. Bicentennial professor American literature and culture Moscow State University, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1976, Dai Ho Chun (Wisdom) chair Professor University Hawaii, 2000-2001.

Director National Endowment of the Humanities summer seminars, 1976, 77. Member evaluation committee department private post-secondary education State of California, 1986. Lecturer in field; consultant in field.

Membership

President Friends of Irvine Public Library., 1974-1975. Member Committee for Freud Museum. Member Southern California American Studies Association (president 1969-1971), American Studies Association (executive board 1969-1971, delegate to Modern Language Association Assembly 1974, chairman Ralph Gabriel prize committee 1975-1977), Modern Language Association (chairman prize committee Jay B. Hubbell Silver medal in American literature 1978-1984), National Association Arts and Letters (prize committee 1987-1988), National Humanities Faculty (advisor to Valhalla High School, El Cajon, California 1979-1981), National American Studies Faculty, International Psychoanalytic Association, International Association Empirical Aesthetics, International Association University Professors English, International Karen Horney Society, Newport Psychoanalytical Institute, Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Helen Bernadette Saldini, June 9, 1956. Children: Helen E., Laura A., Jay Herbert.

Father:

Sylvester K. Martin

Mother:

Ada M. (Smith) Martin

Spouse:

Helen Bernadette Saldini

child:

Helen E. Martin

child:

Laura A. Martin

child:

Jay Herbert Martin