Robert Ernest Spiller

Background

Spiller, Robert Ernest was born on November 13, 1896 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William G. and Helen Constance (Newbold) Spiller.

Education

Bachelor, University Pennsylvania, 1917. Harrison fellow, University Pennsylvania, 1920. Master of Arts, University Pennsylvania, 1921.

Doctor of Philosophy, University Pennsylvania, 1924. Guggenheim fellow for foreign study, 1929. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Thiel College, 1964.

Doctor of Letters (honorary), College Wooster, 1968. Doctor philosophy honorary, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, 1965. Doctor Humane Letters (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1967.

Career

Instructor English University Pennsylvania, 1920-1921. With Swarthmore College, 1921-1945, professor, English, 1934-1945. Chairman Swarthmore College (Humanities Division), 1935-1941, Swarthmore College (Curriculum Committee), 1942-1945.

Professor English, summers Duke University, 1927, Harvard University, 1930, Columbia University, 1931, 1937, University Southern California, 1933, University Michigan, 1936, Bread Loaf School of England, 1948, University Minnesota, 195l, University Colorado, 1956. Visiting professor University Oslo, 1950, New School for Social Research, 1943-1944, University London (King's and Bedford Colleges), 1958-1959, University North Carolina, 1968, University Southern Florida, 1969. Professor English University Pennsylvania, 1945-1961, Felix E. Schelling professor English, 1961-1967, Schelling professor emeritus, from 1967, chairman department American civilization, 1947-1949, 51-53, 55-57.

Advisory editor to American Literature, 1928-1931 and 1940-1955, editor, 1932-1940. Chairman editorial board American Quarterly, 1951-1970.

Achievements

• Robert Ernest Spiller has been listed as a noteworthy educator, literary historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Fenimore Cooper, Critic of His Times

    (Book by Spiller, Robert Ernest, Spiller, Robert)

  • The American Literary Revolution: 1783-1837

    (American Literature & Studies, Literary Studies)

  • The Oblique Light: Studies In American Literary History And Biography

    (Macmillan, 1968, Very good., Clean, tight. No dust jacket...)

  • Social Control in a Free Society (The Benjamin Franklin Lectures of the University of Pennsylvania, Sixth Series)
  • The Third Dimension: Studies in Literary History
  • The Oblique Light: Studies in American Literary History and Biography (Perspectives of Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Complete 2 Vol. Set
  • Milestones in American LIterary History
  • The Philobiblon Club of Philadelphia: The first eighty years, 1893-1973
  • The Third Dimension Studies in Literary History
  • The American in England: During the First Half Century of Independence
  • THE OBLIQUE LIGHT Studies in American Literary History and Biography
  • The American In England During the First Half Century of Independence

Membership

Board directors American-Scandinavian Foundation, chairman committee fellowships, 1966-1970. Board directors Swarthmore (Pennsylvania) Public Library, 1953-1956, president, 1955, 56. Honorary consultant American cultural history Library of Congress, 1967-1969.

Chairman American studies advisory committee American Council Learned Societies, 1960-1966. Served with Advertising Educational Foundation, World War I. Fellow New York State History Association (honorary). Member History Society Pennsylvania, American Studies Association (president 1955), Modern Language Association American (chairman American literature group 1930, 31, 1st vice president 1957), Phi Beta Kappa.

Clubs: Philobiblon (Philadelphia) (president 1964-1968), Franklin Inn (Philadelphia) (president 1961-1964).

Connections

Married Mary Scott, June 17, 1922 (deceased March 1971). Children: William Scott, Constance Newbold (Mistress Thomas J. Johnston), Mary Miles. Married Anna Moss Wright, March 15, 1975.

Father:

William G. Spiller

Mother:

Helen Constance (Newbold) Spiller

Spouse:

Mary Scott

Spouse:

Anna Moss Wright

child:

Mary Miles Spiller

child:

Constance Newbold Spiller (Mistress Thomas J. Johnston)

child:

William Scott Spiller