Robert Spoo Explained

Robert Edward Spoo^[1] (born 1957) is a professor and scholar of law and of English, an academic of the law and literature movement, and a Guggenheim Fellowship awardee.^[2] From 1988 to 2023, he taught at the University of Tulsa, but joined Princeton University as an endowed professor in 2024.

Biography

Born in 1957, Spoo was educated at Lawrence University, and received a BA degree in English in 1979. This was followed by MA (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees in English from Princeton University. Spoo worked as a lecturer at Princeton from 1984 until he joined the University of Tulsa in 1988. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 2000. He held positions as an attorney at various firms between 2000 and 2008, often simultaneously with his academic appointments. From 2001 to 2002, he was a law clerk of Sonia Sotomayor.^[3]

In 2012, Spoo was promoted to Chapman Distinguished Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law. While at Tulsa, he also served as editor of the James Joyce Quarterly.^[4] He was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.^{[5] [6]} In 2020, the University of Tulsa named Spoo an "outstanding researcher."^[7]

Effective on January 1, 2024, Spoo joined the faculty of Princeton University as the endowed Leonard L. Milberg '53 Professor in Irish Letters.^{[8] [9]}

Spoo is editor of the Oxford University Press Law and Literature series^[10] and author of James Joyce and the Language of History,^[11] Without Copyrights,^[12] and Modernism and the Law.^{[13] [14]} On top of his scholarship on James Joyce, he has also published Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946, a book about Ezra Pound.^[15]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Robert Edward Spoo . 2024-07-14 . Research With Princeton . . en.
2. Web site: Robert Spoo . 2024-07-06 . Department of English . . en.
3. Web site: Robert Spoo . 2024-07-06 . . Bepress.
4. Web site: Robert Spoo . 2024-07-06 . Bloomsbury Publishing.
5. Web site: 2016-04-06 . Robert Spoo '00 Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow . 2024-07-06 . . en.
6. Web site: Fisher . Rich . 2016-04-13 . A Chat with TU Law Professor Robert Spoo, a Newly Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow . 2024-07-06 . . en.
7. Web site: 2020-06-02 . Spoo honored with Outstanding Researcher Award . 2024-07-06 . . en-US.
8. Web site: Sep 27, 2023 . Board approves 24 faculty appointments . 2024-07-06 . Office of Communications . . en.
9. Web site: Sep 27, 2023 . Faculty members named to endowed professorships . 2024-07-06 . Office of the Dean of the Faculty . . en.
10. Web site: Law and Literature . 2024-07-06 . Oxford University Press.
11. Reviewed in:
    • Clio,,,
    • English Literature in Transition,,,
    • European Legacy,,
    • James Joyce Broadsheet,
    • James Joyce Literary Supplement,,
    • James Joyce Quarterly,,,
    • Journal of English and Germanic Philology,,,,
    • Journal of Modern Literature,,
    • Modern Fiction Studies,,,,
    • Modernism/Modernity,,,
    • Philological Quarterly,,,
    • Sewanee Review"",,,
    • Studies in the Novel,,
12. Reviewed in:
    • American Historical Review,,,
    • Clio,,
    • College & Research Libraries,,,
    • Common Knowledge,,
    • Critical Inquiry, Link,,,
    • English Literature in Transition,,,
    • Irish Literary Supplement,
    • James Joyce Quarterly,,,,
    • Journal of Modern Literature,,
    • Journal of Scholarly Publishing,,,
    • Law Library Journal,
    • Library Journal,,
    • Literature & History,,,
    • Los Angeles Review of Books, Link
    • Make It New, Link
    • Nation, Link,
    • New York Journal of Books, Link
    • Publishers Weekly, Link,
    • Reason,
    • Times Literary Supplement,,
    • Wilson Quarterly,,
13. Reviewed in:
    • American Literature,,
    • Choice,
    • Common Knowledge,
    • English Literature in Transition,,,
    • James Joyce Literary Supplement,
    • James Joyce Quarterly,,,
    • Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, Link
    • Journal of Modern Literature,,,,
    • Law & Literature,,
    • ProtoView,
    • Review of English Studies,,
    • San Francisco Book Review, Link
14. Web site: Robert Spoo . 2024-07-06 . . en-US.
15. Book: Spoo . Robert . Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946 . Pound . Omar . 1999 . Oxford University Press.