Gohdes, Clarence 1901-

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Birth 1901

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1901, July 2 Born, San Antonio, Tex. 1921 A.B., Capital University, Columbus, Ohio 1922 A.M., Ohio State University 1926 1927 Assistant Professor of English, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Tex. 1928 M.A., Harvard University 1929 1930 Instructor in English, New York University 1930 1938 Assistant and Associate Professor of English, Duke University 1931 Ph.D., Columbia University Published The Periodicals of American Transcendentalism 1932 1954 Managing Editor, American Literature (journal) 1932 Published Uncollected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Reports on American Life and Natural Religion (editor) Visiting lecturer, Columbia University 1938 Married Celestine Marie Beamer 1938 1961 Professor of English, Duke University 1944 Published American Literature in Nineteenth-Century England 1949 Published Faint Clews and Indirections: Manuscripts of Walt Whitman and His Family (co-editor) 1951 Published Literature of the American People (contributor) 1954 1969 Editor-in-chief, American Literature (journal) 1955 Published America's Literature (co-editor) 1959 Published Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A. Served as Chairman, Modern Language Association, American Literature Group 1961 1971 James B. Duke Professor of American Literature, Duke University 1962 Guggenheim Fellow 1967 Published Essays on American Literature in Honor of Jay B. Hubbell (editor) Published Hunting in the Old South (editor) Published Literature and Theater of the States and Regions of the U.S.A.: A Historical Bibliography 1971 Retired from Duke University 1982 Published Scuppernong, North Carolina's Grape and Its Wines 1988 Published Pioneers in English at Trinity and Duke 1997 Died, Durham, N.C.

Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes began his post-undergraduate studies at Harvard, where he turned his attention from Latin to American literature under the tutelage of Bliss Perry, J. L. Lowes, G. L. Kittredge, and Kenneth B. Murdock. At Columbia, Gohdes wrote his dissertation under Ralph L. Rusk.

Gohdes earned his scholarly reputation through his work in American literature. He published two texts, one on Ralph Waldo Emerson and the other on Walt Whitman, that contributed to American literary scholarship through his original research and archival work. Gohdes also influenced the formation of American literary studies through his long-standing position as Managing Editor (under Jay B. Hubbell, founding editor) and then Editor-in-Chief of American Literature, the discipline's foundational academic journal. Similarly, Gohdes's A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of the Literature of the U.S.A., which went through five editions, played a key role in documenting and making accessible American literary criticism. Gohdes's career achievements attest to his role in extending the work of scholars of American literature.

From the guide to the Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes Papers, and undated, bulk, 1811-1990s, 1905-1981, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)

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