Background
Langlois, Walter Gordon was born on May 27, 1925 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Edward and Anna Mae (Doyle) Langlois.
literature and language professor writer
Langlois, Walter Gordon was born on May 27, 1925 in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Walter Edward and Anna Mae (Doyle) Langlois.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1950; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1955; certified, U. Paris, 1949; certified (Fulbright scholar), U. Florence, 1952; certified postdoctoral fellow, Harvard University, 1960-1961.
Teaching assistant Yale University, 1951-1952, 53-54. Instructor University Wisconsin, 1954-1956, Lycée Sisowath, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1956-1957. Assistant professor Boston College, 1957-1964.
Associate professor to professor, director graduate studies in French University Kentucky, 1964-1974. Professor department modern and classical languages University Wyoming, Laramie, 1974—1994. Rockefeller postdoctoral fellow Asian studies Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960—1961.
Visiting professor Osaka University, Japan, 1984—1986. Director summer seminars National Endowment of the Humanities, 1984, 88, 89, 90.
(The French in Southeast Asia)
Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Member Modern Language Association, American Association Teachers of French, Malraux Society, Manuscript Society, Société d'etude du XXe siècle.
Married Sheila Rawson Wood, May 30, 1959. Children: Walter Rawson, Rebecca Annual.