Priscilla Tyler

Background

Tyler, Priscilla was born on October 23, 1908 in Cleveland. Daughter of Ralph Sargent and Alice Lorraine (Campbell) Tyler.

Education

Bachelor in Latin and Greek, Radcliffe College, 1932. Master of Arts in Education, Case Western Reserve University, 1934. Doctor of Philosophy in English, Case Western Reserve University, 1953.

Doctor of Laws (honorary), Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 1993.

Career

Parole officer, case worker Cleveland School for Girls, 1934-1935. Teacher English, Latin and French Cleveland Heights (Ohio) Public Schools, 1935-1945. Instructor to assistant professor English Flora Stone Mather College, Cleveland, 1945-1959.

Assistant dean Flora Stone Mather College Western Reserve University, 1957-1959. Assistant professor education, head department English School of Education Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1959-1963. Associate professor English, University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1963-1967, director freshman rhetoric, 1966-1967.

Professor English and education University Missouri, Kansas City, 1967-1978, professor emeritus, since 1978. Instructor Nova Scotia (Canada) Department Education, Halifax, summers 1972-1973. Conductor numerous seminars.

Former lecturer University California, Berkeley, University Chicago, Purdue University, University Missouri, Columbia, University Nebraska, Emory University, Fresno State University, California State University, Hayward, San Jose State College, Mills College, Alabama, Tift College, Georgia, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Midwestern University, Texas.

Works

• book

  • Writers the other side of the horizon : a guide to developing literatures of the world.
  • World's literature written in English;: Presented at the Conference on Black Literature: It's value in the Curriculum

• Other Work

  • Editor: Harpers Modern Classics, 19 vols., 1963, Writers the Other Side of the Horizon, 1964. Co-author (introduction with and Maree Brooks), co-editor: (with Maree Brooks) Inupiat Paitot, 1974, co-editor (with Maree Brooks) Sevukakmet, Ways of Life on St. Lawrence Island (Helen Slwooko Carius), 1979, The Epic of Qayaq (Lela Kiana Oman), 1995, World Literature Written in English, 1965-1969.Interviewed authors, Jan Carew, Wilson Harris, Guyana, George Lamming, Barbados, Christopher Okigbo and Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, Derek Wolcott, St. Lucia, Andrew Salkey, Jamaica

  • also articles.

Membership

Member Ohio Governor's Committee on Employment of Physically Handicapped, 1957. Member Friends of Art of Carleton University, Nelson Atkins Museum Art, Kansas City, Ottawa (Kansas) Art Gallery, Friends of Library., Ottawa, Kansas. Member Modern Language Association, National Education Association, Archaeol.

Institute American, National Council Teachers English (vice president 1963, member committee on history of the profession 1965-1968, Commission on Composition 1968-1971, trustee Research Foundation 1970-1978, Distinguished Service award 1978), Conference on College Composition and Communications (president 1963), Arctic Institute North America, Inuit Art Foundation, Franklin County (Kansas) History Association, California Association Teachers English (honorary Curriculum Commission Central California), Delta Kappa Gamma (president Upsilon chapter 1950-1952).

Interests

• Collecting rare books of american and english grammar, inuit art, history and culture, travel.

Connections

Father:

Ralph Sargent Tyler

Mother:

Alice Lorraine (Campbell) Tyler