Jay Herbert Martin

Background

Martin, Jay Herbert was born on October 30, 1935 in Newark. 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 of English and American Studies, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1960-1968; Professor of English and comparative culture, University of California, Irvine, 1968-1979; assistant professor psychiatry and human behavior, clinical supervisor residency program California College Medicine, California College Medicine University of California, Irvine, 1978-1996; Leo S. Bing Professor of English and American literature, University of Southern California, Irvine, 1979-1996; director undergraduate program in American studies, University of Southern California, Irvine, 1968-1969; director program in comparative culture, University of Southern California, Irvine, 1969-1971; director education abroad program, University of Southern California, Irvine, 1971-1975; professor government, Edward S. Gould professor humanities, Claremont McKenna College, since 1996; director civilization program, Claremont (California) McKenna College, since 1996; acting director Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont (California) McKenna College, since 1998. Instructor psychoanalysis Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1984-1996. Bicentennial professor American literature and culture Moscow State University, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1976.

Visiting Parmenter lecturer Children's Hospital, San Francisco, 1989, Annual William Faulkner Lecture, 1991, Herman Serota Foundation lecture, 1992. Consultant to public houses. Lecturer Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Poland, Norway, France, Costa Rica, Germany, Brazil, Canada, U. London, Hebrew U., Jerusalem, Seoul, Republican Korea, Bergen, Norway, China, Peru, Durham, England.

Director National Endowment for Humanities summer seminars, 1976, 77. Member evaluation committee department private post-secondary education State of California, 1986. Consultant numerous universities, publications, National Education Association, National Education Association, J.S. Guggenheim Foundation, California Council for Humanities and Public Policy, United States Congress Committee on Edition and Labor.

Faculty associate Council International Exch. of Scholars. Frequent speaker professional organizations and seminars, universities, conferences, hospitals.

Achievements

• Jay Herbert Martin has been listed as a noteworthy Psychoanalysis and English educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Conrad Aiken: A Life of His Art

    ( The Description for this book, Conrad Aiken: A Life of ...)

  • Robert Lowell

    (University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers, Nu...)

  • Who Am I This Time? Uncovering the Fictive Personality

    (Psychoanalyst Jay Martin looks at the Walter Mitty in all...)

  • Always Merry And Bright: The Life of Henry Miller- An Unauthorized Biography

    (The Life of Henry Miller- An Unauthorized Biography)

  • Nathanael West: Art of His Life
  • Nathanael West; the art of his life

    (biography)

  • Conrad Aiken, a life of his art.
  • Harvests Of Change American Literature 1865-1914
  • Who Am I This Time: Uncovering the Fictive Personality
  • Harvests of Change: American Literature 1965-1914
  • Nathanael West (20th Century Views)
  • Always Merry and Bright: Life of Henry Miller
  • Conrad Aiken: A Life of His Art.

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 U. Profs.English, International Karen Horney Society, 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:

Jay Herbert Martin

child:

Helen E. Martin

child:

Laura A. Martin