Mark Spilka papers Spilka (Mark) Papers 1990-2001

Spilka, Mark.

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A professor and scholar of English literature, Mark Spilka was born August 6, 1925. He was educated at Brown University and, following service in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1944 to 1946, graduated with the class of 1949. He pursued graduate studies at the University of Indiana, completing his PhD in 1956. Between 1968 and 1973, Silka served as chairman of the Brown University English department. He was named the Israel J. Kapstein Professor of English in 1990. He was director of t...

Sklenicka, Carol, 1948-

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Brown University.

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In 1917 the university established the Brown War Records Bureau, whose intention was to "collect and preserve a record of all Brown men who are serving in the present war". Brown faculty, students and alumni who were in the military were asked to fill out a small card called "Are you in the war?" and to send original letters, clippings or photographs which "have any bearing on the service of Brown men in the war." This collection is partly a result of that effort. From the guide to t...