Background

Appleyard, Joseph Albert was born on May 9, 1931 in Malden, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Francis and Margaret Regina (Butler) Appleyard.

Education

Bachelor, Boston College, 1953. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1964. Licence in Sacred Theology, Canisianum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 1967.

Career

Professor of English, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, since 1967;rector The Jesuit Community, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, since 1991. Director honors program Boston College, since 1987. Board of trustees Boston College, since 1991, Loyola-Marymount U., Los Angeles, since 1993.

Board directors National Catholic Report Company, Kansas City, Missoury.

Works

Works Gallery

• book

  • Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood

    (Becoming a Reader studies the psychological development o...)

  • Becoming a Reader. The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood.
  • Becoming a Reader: The Experience of Fiction from Childhood to Adulthood by Appleyard, J. A. (1994) Paperback

• Other Work

  • Author: Coleridge's Philosophy of Literature, 1965, Becoming a Reader, 1990.

Membership

Member Modern Language Association, National Council Teachers of English.

Connections

father:

William Francis Appleyard

mother:

Margaret Regina (Butler) Appleyard