Background
McFarland, Thomas was born on September 13, 1926 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Thomas Alfred McFarland and Lucile Sylvester.
McFarland, Thomas was born on September 13, 1926 in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Son of Thomas Alfred McFarland and Lucile Sylvester.
AB, Harvard University, 1949. AM, Yale University, 1951. Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1953.
Postgraduate, Eberhard-Karls-Universität, Tübingen, Germany, 1953—1954. Master of Arts (honorary), Oxford University, England, 1986.
Instructor in English Oberlin College, 1954-1956, University Virginia, 1956-1958. Assistant professor Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1958-1962, associate professor, 1962-1964, professor, 1964-1967, Graduate Center City University of New York, 1967-1973, distinguished professor English literature, 1973-1978. Professor Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1978-1981, Murray professor English literature, 1981-1989.
Murray professor English literature emeritus Princeton University, since 1989. Visiting professor University Colorado, 1968, University Virginia, 1972, Yale University, 1975. Visiting fellow All Souls College, University Oxford, England, 1986-1987, Humanities Research Center, Australian National University, Canberra, 1992, Lechter Institute for Literature Research, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, 1989, University Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 1992.
Advisory board Bulletin Research in Humanities, since 1978, Studies in Romanticism, since 1982, Nineteenth-Century Literature, since 1986, Works of Thomas De Quincey, 1990, Romanticism, since 1995. Honorary fellow Center for European Romanticism, Glasgow, since 1997. Member supervising committee English Institute, 1971-1974, chairman 1974.
Associate trustee The Dove Cottage Trust, The Lake District, England, since 1982. Board advisors Milton and the Romantics, since 1975. Seminar associate Columbia University, since 1971.
President committee English department Harvard University, 1987-1988. Lecturer in field.
Member Modern Language Association (executive committee English 9 1970-1973, chairman 1974), Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics (honorary life).