Cole, Douglas.

Douglas Cole was born on July 25, 1934, in New York, New York to Ronald and Helen Cole. Cole studied at the University of Vienna, the University of Notre Dame and Princeton University, earning a Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 1961. He began teaching in 1960, and came to Northwestern as a full professor in 1969. While at Northwestern, Cole served as an English Department chair, Director of the Undergraduate Program in Drama, and Master of the Humanities Residential College, amongst various other activities. He retired in 1998.

Cole attended the University of Vienna, Austria from 1953 to 1954 before returning to the United States to finish his degree. He graduated maxima cum laude with a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1957. In November, 1957 Cole married his wife, Virginia, and in December of that same year he earned his M.A. degree in English from the University of Chicago. He continued his studies at Princeton University, where his first son, Douglas, was born in 1958. Cole received a Ph.D. in English from Princeton in 1961.

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