Background
Wortham, Thomas Richard was born on December 5, 1943 in Liberal, Kansas, United States. Son of Tom and Ruth (Cavanaugh) Wortham.
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Thomas Richard Wortham
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AB, Marquette U., 1965; Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana U., 1970.
Career
From assistant professor to associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1970-1982; professor, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1982; vice-chairman and director undergraduate studies, University of California at Los Angeles, 1993-1997; department chairman, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1997. Visiting professor American literature U. Warsaw, Poland, 1976-1977. Senior research fellow American Council of Learned Socs., 1983-1984.
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Membership
Member Modern Language Association American (Norman Foerster prize committee of America Literature section 1973, chairman Pacific coast region, commission on manuscript holdings of America Literature sect.1972-1978, member Hubbell prize committee of America Literature section 1989-1991), American Studies Association, Ralph Waldo Emerson Society (board directors 1992-1995), Association for Document Editing, International Association University professors English, Society Textual Scholarship.
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Religion
Episcopalian
Awards
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Regent's faculty fellow in the humanities University of California, 1971. Travel grantee National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986, 88-89. Grants-in-aidof research American Philosophical Society, 1976, 81.Regent's faculty fellow in the humanities University of California, 1971. Travel grantee National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985-1986, 88-89. Grants-in-aidof research American Philosophical Society, 1976, 81.