Education
and Doctor of Philosophy (1894) from Harvard University, working with the eminent medievalists Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge.
and Doctor of Philosophy (1894) from Harvard University, working with the eminent medievalists Francis James Child and George Lyman Kittredge.
Norris received his Bachelor of Arts (1891), Master of Arts In 1936, after appointments at Harvard as instructor (1894), assistant professor (1902), and professor (1906), he succeeded his thesis adviser, Kittredge, as Gurney Professor of English. In 1895, he spent a year abroad at the University of Freiburg, Germany, working with Rudolph Turneysen, one of the founders of Celtic Philology. Richard Utz, “The Colony Writes Back:.