Background
Stallman, Robert Wooster was born on September 27, 1911 in Milwaukee. Son of Paul Michael and Hazel (Wooster) Stallman.
Stallman, Robert Wooster was born on September 27, 1911 in Milwaukee. Son of Paul Michael and Hazel (Wooster) Stallman.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Wisconsin, 1933, A.M., 1939, Doctor of Philosophy, 1942. Part-time instructor University of Wisconsin, 1939-1942. Instructor Rhode Island State College, 1942-1943, Yale, 1943-1944, Katharine Gibbs School, Boston, 1944-1946.
Assistant Professor of English U. Kansas, 1946-1949. Associate Professor of English U. Connecticut, 1949-1953, professor, 1953-1982. Bingham professor of University Lousville (Kentucky), 1966.
Associate editor The Western Review, 1946-1948. Staff member Writers’ Conference, Kansas, summer 1948. Lecturer University of Wisconsin, summers 1946, 49, University of Minnesota, summer 1947.
Ford Foundation fellow, 1953-1954. Fulbright lecturer American literature U. Strasbourg, 1958-1959, European universities. Visiting professor Citizen’s chair U. Hawaii, 1970.
Director U. Connecticut Writers’ Conference, 1950-1955. Fellow La Fondation Camargo, Cassis, France, 1974-1975. Lecturer French universities, 1977.
Assistant Professor of English U. Kans. Editor The Western Review, 1946-1948. Director U. Conn; Editor: Critiques and Essays in Criticism, 1920-1948, 1949, The Critic’s Notebook, 1950, 77, Stephen Crane: An Omnibus, 1952, 54, Stephen Crane: Stories and Tales, 1955, Seventeen American Poets, 1958, The Ambassadors, 1960, The Art of Joseph Conrad, 1960, 81, The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories, 1960, Stephen Crane: Sullivan County Tales and Sketches, 1968, The Stephen Crane Reader, 1972.
Editor: Studies in the Novel.
Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Virginia Blume, August 21, 1939. Children: William Wooster, Robert Wooster.