Emily Stipes Watts Explained
Emily Stipes Watts |
Birth Name: | Emily Stipes |
Birth Date: | 16 March 1936 |
Birth Place: | Urbana, Illinois, United States |
Death Place: | Urbana, Illinois, United States |
Occupation: | Professor of English, writer |
Period: | 1963–2005 |
Genre: | Essays, literary criticism |
Subject: | Arts, poetry, literature |
Education: | Smith College, University of Illinois, PhD. Arts, 1963 |
Spouse: | Robert Allan Watts (30 August 1958) |
Awards: | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow (1973-1974) |
Emily Stipes Watts (March 16, 1936 – March 12, 2018) was an American educator, writer, and literary historian. In parallel with her academic career, she wrote Ernest Hemingway and the Arts (1971), The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 (1978) and The Businessman in American Literature (1982). A laureate of the Guggenheim Fellowship, she also served as chair of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
Early life
Emily Stipes was born March 16, 1936, in Urbana, Illinois, the daughter of Royal Arthur Stipes Jr. and Virginia Louise Schenck.[1] She was a student at Smith College until 1956 and then at University of Illinois, where she obtained: a BA (1958), a MA (Woodrow Wilson National fellow, 1959), and a PhD for her thesis on Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists (1963).[2] [3] She married Robert Allan Watts on August 31, 1958.[4]
Career
Stipes Watts was appointed instructor in the English language department at the University of Illinois at Urbana (1963-1967), and then assistant professor (1967-1973). In 1971, she published Ernest Hemingway and the Arts.[5]
She was granted a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1973-1974[6] and appointed associate professor (1973-1977), professor and director of graduate studies at the English department (1977—2005),[7] and professor emerita since 2005. In 1978, she published The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945.[8]
Stipes Watts was appointed chairman of the Board of directors of the University of Illinois Athletic Association (1981-1983).[1] In 1982, she published The Businessman in American Literature.[9] [10] [11]
She was a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education since 1984, and became its vice chairman (1986-1987), then chairman (1987-1988). Stipes Watts was also a member of the American Institute of Archaeology, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, the Authors Guild, the Illinois History Society, The Philadelphia Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi.
Works
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily
. Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists. Thesis/dissertation. 1963. University of Illinois. Urbana. 19565369.
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily
. Ernest Hemingway and the Arts. 1971. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-00169-7. ESW.
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily
. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. 1978. University of Texas Press. Austin, Texas. 0-292-76450-2.
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily
. The Businessman in American Literature. 1982. Beard Books. Frederick, Maryland. 978-1-587-98235-4.
Bibliography
- Book: Wagner-Martin, L.. Emily Dickinson: A Literary Life. 14 November 2013. Palgrave Macmillan UK. 978-1-137-03306-2. "Literary historian Emily Stipes Watts points out that during the mid-nineteenth century, people wrote poems suitable for children's reading, regardless of how that work was described. Many of Dickinson's short poems might well have been considered appropriate for children and their instruction. In Watts' words, the poems were not differentiated.".
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Emily Watts obituary . The News-Gazette . news-gazette.com. March 14, 2018. March 18, 2018.
- Web site: CUSF Celebrates 5 of Our Public High School Alumni at 2011 Gala . CU Schools Foundation . cuschoolsfoundation.org . April 22, 2011 . March 18, 2018 . March 19, 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180319004027/http://cuschoolsfoundation.org/cusf-celebrates-5-of-our-public-high-school-alumni-at-2011-gala/ . dead .
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily
. Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists. Thesis/dissertation. 1963. University of Illinois. Urbana. 19565369.
- Web site: Robert Watts obituary. The News-Gazette. news-gazette.com. June 16, 2016.
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily
. Ernest Hemingway and the Arts. 1971. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-00169-7. ESW.
- Web site: Emily Stipes Watts . John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . gf.org . March 18, 2018.
- Web site: Tracy . Crane . The News-Gazette . A Life Remembered. UI English professor, author recalled for brilliance . news-gazette.com . March 16, 2018 . March 18, 2018.
- Book: Stipes Watts, Emily . The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. 1978 . University of Texas Press . Austin, Texas . 0-292-76450-2.
- Book: Stipes Watts
, Emily . The Businessman in American Literature . 1982 . 1st. Beard Books . Frederick, Maryland . 978-1-587-98235-4.
- Book: Stipes Watts, Emily . The Businessman in American Literature . 2004 . 2nd . Beard Books . Frederick, Maryland . 1-587-98235-8.
- C. L. . Sonnichsell. Book Reviews: The Businessman in American Literature . Cambridge University Press. Business History Review . 1983 . 57. 2. 276–277. 10.2307/3114359. 3114359. 156732486. June 16, 2016.