John Hollander

Background

HOLLANDER, John was born on October 28, 1929 in New York, United States. Son of Franklin and Muriel (Komfeld) Hollander.

Education

AB, Columbia University, 1950. AM, Columbia University, 1952. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1959.

Doctor of Letters (honorary), Marietta College, 1982. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Indiana University, 1990. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Maine College of Art, 1993.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), City University of New York, 2001. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New School University, 2003.

Career

Junior fellow Society Fellows, Harvard, 1954-1957. Lecturer English Connecticut College, New London, 1957-1959. Instructor English Yale, 1959-1961.

Assistant professor English, fellow Ezra Stiles College, 1961-1964, associate professor, 1964-1966. Professor Hunter College, City University of New York, 1966—1977. Professor English Yale University, New Haven, since 1977, A. Bartlett Giamatti professor, since 1987, Sterling professor, 1995—2002, professor emeritus, 2002.

Visiting professor Linguistic Institute, Inc. University, 1964; faculty Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, 1965. Christian Gauss seminarian Princeton University, 1962.

Clark lecturer Trinity College, Cambridge, England, 2000.

Achievements

• John Hollander has been listed as a noteworthy humanities educator, poet by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Essential Rossetti (Essential Poets)

    (Book by Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, Hollander, John)

  • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume 2. From Blake to Auden

    (Book by Kermode, Frank, Hollander, John)

  • Jiggery Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls, With a New Epilogue

Membership

Member of American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy Arts and Letters (secretary 2000-2003), American Association Literature Scholars and Critics (president 2000-2001), Century Association (New York City), Phi Beta Kappa.

Connections

Married Anne Helen Loesser, June 15, 1953 (divorced 1977). Children: Martha, Elizabeth. Married Natalie Charkow, December 15, 1981.

Father:

Franklin Hollander

Mother:

Muriel (Kornfeld) Hollander

Spouse:

Natalie Charkow

Spouse:

Anne Helen Loesser

child:

Elizabeth Hollander

child:

Martha Hollander