Background
Stagg, Louis Charles was born on January 3, 1933. Son of Louis Anatol and Gladys (Andrews) Stagg.
English language and literature educator
Stagg, Louis Charles was born on January 3, 1933. Son of Louis Anatol and Gladys (Andrews) Stagg.
Bachelor in English, Louisiana College, Pineville, 1955. Master of Arts in English, University Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy in English, University Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1963.
Teaching assistant English University Arkansas, 1955-1959. Assistant professor William Jewell College, 1959-1960. Instructor Stephen F. Austin State University, 1960-1962.
Assistant professor Memphis State University (now University Memphis), 1962-1969, associate professor, 1969-1977, professor English language and literature, 1977-1998, professor emeritus, since 1998, director graduate studies in English, 1985-1988, director English Drama Players, 1968-1992, director undergraduate advising for English, 1970-1980, 88-91, chair policies and procedures committee for English, 1983-1995, consultant for 2001 program. Chairman academy policies committee Memphis State University Senate, 1981-1982, 88-90, 93-96, executive committee senate, 1987-1991, 93-96, parliamentarian of senate, 1987-1988, 90-91, 94-96, humanities representative budget advisory committee dean College Arts and Sciences, 1992-1993, advisory board Academy Exchange Quarterly, 1997-2000, steering committee, chair of schedules, originator Alliance Creative Theatre, Education and Research series, 1986, 89-90, 92, 94, 96, 98. Consultant National Endowment of the Humanities, 1975-1976, 78, Ohio State University Press, 1985-1986, University Jordan, Amman, 1985.
Chair policies and procedures subdivision England department southern association colleges, schools self study, steering committee 1992-1993. Consultant Memphis State University Learning Media-Centers catalogue Shakespeare holdings, 1992-1993, review, 1993-1995.
Member Memphis Oratorio Society Chorus, 1969-1992, diction coach, 1987. Active Memphis Symphony Chorus, 1993-1904, newsletter committee, 1999-1900. Active Memphis in May Sunset Symphony Choir, 1996, Martin Luther King Tribute Concert Choir, 1995-1996, 99-04, City of Memphis Faure Requiem Concert, 2001, Memphis Symphony Chorus and Orchestra production Rolling Requiem for 9/11/02.
Lay reader Episcopal Church. Program chair Friends of University Libraries, 2000-2002, vice president, 2002-2003, president 2003-2005, executive council, since 2005, vice chairman public programs, since 2005. Member at large executive committee University Memphis Association Retirees, 2003-2006.
Member Modern Language Association (life), Southern Humanities Council (secretary-treasurer 1974-1976, executive committee 1976-1983, 94-96, chairman council 1993-1994, chairman section humanities in pluralistic society 1984, ad hoc committee on crisis in teaching humanities 1977, chairman local arrangements for conventions 1975, 94, chairman section on Thomas Hardy 1996), Tennessee Philological Association (president 1976-1977, executive committee 1977, local arrangements chairman 1965, 69, 75, 87, chairman Shakespeare section 1996, local arrangements committee for Memphis convention for 2009), Marlowe Society of America (book reviewer 1984, 86-88, 93), American Society for Theatre Research, Samuel Beckett Society, Conference on Christianity and Literature, South Center Conference on Christianity and Literature Society for Study of Works of Harold Pinter (life, assistant constitution revision 1988, assistant with planning 1992, treasurer 1994-1998, executive committee 1994-1998), Arkansas Philological Association, Shakespeare Association American (local arrangements host committee 1985), Stratford-upon-Avon Shakespeare Festival (England), Eugene O'Neill Society, Alliance for Creative Theatre, Education and Research (chairman schedules committee, originator of proposal 1986, 89-90, 92, 94, 96, 98, consultant residency Southeast Missouri State University 1997), International Shakespeare Association, American Society Theatre Research, International Society Theatre Research, Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, Renaissance Society of America, South Center Renaissance Conference (life, chairman nominations 1976, executive committee 1978-1980, program committee 1981-1983, chairman section Shakespeare 1981, 85, 95, 99, 2002-2004, chair non dramatic literature, 2005, chair Renaissance drama section 2006, chair Renaissance drama section 2007, chair renaissance poetry section, chair politics in history and drama 2007, section chair Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, 2008, 16th Century literature 1982, chairman local arrangements 1983, symposium on humanism 1984, chairman Shakespeare on film and the teaching British drama 1986, chairman music in Shakespeare's plays, 1987, chairman section Thematic Approaches to Tudor/Stuart Drama 1988, chairman section Medieval Influences on Renaissance drama 1993, chairman Shakespeare's Villains: Stage and Page 1995, Adaptions of Renaissance Drama 1993, chairman local arrangements for convention 1990, chairman special session 1989, 95, Shakespeare II section 1996, chair Renaissance Drama Section 1999, 01, chairman Performing Rennaissance Drama 2001), South Center Modern Language Association (life, associate editor for English, South Center Bulletin 1982-1984, nominations committee 1985-1986, 95-96, book reviewer South Center Review 1983, 85-86, secretary English I.B. Renaissance, 1986, chair, 1987, secretary special section Renaissance Drama, 1988, chair Shakespeare's Tragi-comedies and tragi-comic romances, 1989, co-chair local arrangements, 1999, chair panel on renaissance drama criticism 1995, secretary renaissance drama section 1997, section chairman 1998, member committee Convention, Memphis, 1999, 2007, secretary renaissance non-dramatic literature 2005, local arrangements committee Memphis 2007 convention), South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Central College English Association (secretary-treasurer 1980-1981, vice president 1981-1982, president 1982-1983, executive committee 1983-1990, co-host 1982, committee constitution revision 1989), College English Association, International Patristic Medieval and Renaissance Conference (section chairman Medieval drama 1977, chair Shakespeare session 1994, chairman Renaissance drama section 1995, chairman 17th century British literature section 1996, chairman Milton section 1996), American Theatre Association (chairman section combining British literature and theatre in teaching of drama 1983, chairman Shakespeare section 1994), Marlowe Society of America, Eugene O'Neill Society, Stratford Canada Shakespeare Festival, American Association of University Professors (secretary treasurer Memphis State University chapter 1982-1986, vice president 1986-1988, president 1988-1990), Memphis Metropolitan Area Association of Phi Beta Kappa (president memphis alumni association 1985-1988, special panel Society and New Scholarship at 37th triennial council 1994), Memphis Alumni Association of Phi Beta Kappa, Humanities Tennessee, Alpha Chi.
Married Mary Casner, June 5, 1959. Children: Robert Charles, Helen Marie.