Background
Nelson, Robert James was born on March 29, 1925.
Nelson, Robert James was born on March 29, 1925.
Bachelor, Columbia College, 1949. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1955.
Instructor French Yale University, New Haven, 1955-1958. Professor French University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1959-1969. Professor emeritus French University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1969-1993.
Adjunct professor New York University, 1967-1969. Visiting professor Reading, England, 1981-1982, Stanford University, 1978-1979. Morse fellow Yale, 1958.
Guggenheim fellow, 1965.