Husband of Mildred Simone Bassett, daughter of Ralphiel Phillipps Bassett.
J. Albert Robbins, Jr., Professor of English Emeritus, was born on December 5, 1914, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He died March 4, 1992, after thirty-five years on the faculty of Indiana University, from which he retired in 1985. Having moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Florida, when he was about to enter high school, he attended the University of Florida at Gainesville, from which he received both a B.A. (1937) and an M.A. (1938) in English. He also received a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania (1947) and held an appointment as Instructor of English at Duke University (1946-50). He fulfilled his active military service as Communications Officer in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) and eventually achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander (USNR).
Having joined the IU faculty in 1950 as a specialist in American literature and in bibliography, Al Robbins served many generations of undergraduate and graduate students not only through his teaching and scholarship but also through his work as an administrator and member of many faculty committees. He was chairman of the freshman literature program for seven years in the 1950s and vice-chairman of the department in 1967-68. He initiated the Undergraduate Book Collector's Prize and served for twenty years on the University Library Committee.
His scholarship and professional service will continue to be of value to generations of scholars who depend on his meticulous bibliographical work. As a member for more than three decades of the Bibliography Committee of the Modern Language Association of America and of the American Literature Section of the MLA, Al Robbins participated in the compilation of the MLA Annual Bibliography and the bibliographical lists published in American Literature. In 1965 he joined the effort to revise the finding list of American literary manuscripts, eventually became the editor of the project, and saw it through to publication in 1977. From 1968 to 1988 he was editor and co-editor (with James Woodress) of American Literary Scholarship, an essential research tool for everyone working in the field of American literature.
Al Robbins was a dedicated teacher and a man deeply committed to his profession. Quiet and reticent almost to a fault, he had the student's love of books, the teacher's interest in sharing that love, and the bibliographer's passion for detail and the bedrock of hard facts. But all his professional dedication never detracted him from his love for his family--his wife, Simone, and their daughter, Marise. Through her care and love, Simone supported him and helped to make possible a full and accomplished life. Through her work in environmental biology, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University, Marise has begun her professional career as an environmental consultant in Gainesville, Florida, where Al had found his start in the academic profession more than half a century earlier.
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J. Albert Robbins, Jr., Professor of English Emeritus, was born on December 5, 1914, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He died March 4, 1992, after thirty-five years on the faculty of Indiana University, from which he retired in 1985. Having moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Florida, when he was about to enter high school, he attended the University of Florida at Gainesville, from which he received both a B.A. (1937) and an M.A. (1938) in English. He also received a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania (1947) and held an appointment as Instructor of English at Duke University (1946-50). He fulfilled his active military service as Communications Officer in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) and eventually achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander (USNR).
Having joined the IU faculty in 1950 as a specialist in American literature and in bibliography, Al Robbins served many generations of undergraduate and graduate students not only through his teaching and scholarship but also through his work as an administrator and member of many faculty committees. He was chairman of the freshman literature program for seven years in the 1950s and vice-chairman of the department in 1967-68. He initiated the Undergraduate Book Collector's Prize and served for twenty years on the University Library Committee.
His scholarship and professional service will continue to be of value to generations of scholars who depend on his meticulous bibliographical work. As a member for more than three decades of the Bibliography Committee of the Modern Language Association of America and of the American Literature Section of the MLA, Al Robbins participated in the compilation of the MLA Annual Bibliography and the bibliographical lists published in American Literature. In 1965 he joined the effort to revise the finding list of American literary manuscripts, eventually became the editor of the project, and saw it through to publication in 1977. From 1968 to 1988 he was editor and co-editor (with James Woodress) of American Literary Scholarship, an essential research tool for everyone working in the field of American literature.
Al Robbins was a dedicated teacher and a man deeply committed to his profession. Quiet and reticent almost to a fault, he had the student's love of books, the teacher's interest in sharing that love, and the bibliographer's passion for detail and the bedrock of hard facts. But all his professional dedication never detracted him from his love for his family--his wife, Simone, and their daughter, Marise. Through her care and love, Simone supported him and helped to make possible a full and accomplished life. Through her work in environmental biology, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University, Marise has begun her professional career as an environmental consultant in Gainesville, Florida, where Al had found his start in the academic profession more than half a century earlier.
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Husband of Mildred Simone Bassett, daughter of Ralphiel Phillipps Bassett.
J. Albert Robbins, Jr., Professor of English Emeritus, was born on December 5, 1914, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He died March 4, 1992, after thirty-five years on the faculty of Indiana University, from which he retired in 1985. Having moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Florida, when he was about to enter high school, he attended the University of Florida at Gainesville, from which he received both a B.A. (1937) and an M.A. (1938) in English. He also received a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania (1947) and held an appointment as Instructor of English at Duke University (1946-50). He fulfilled his active military service as Communications Officer in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) and eventually achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander (USNR).
Having joined the IU faculty in 1950 as a specialist in American literature and in bibliography, Al Robbins served many generations of undergraduate and graduate students not only through his teaching and scholarship but also through his work as an administrator and member of many faculty committees. He was chairman of the freshman literature program for seven years in the 1950s and vice-chairman of the department in 1967-68. He initiated the Undergraduate Book Collector's Prize and served for twenty years on the University Library Committee.
His scholarship and professional service will continue to be of value to generations of scholars who depend on his meticulous bibliographical work. As a member for more than three decades of the Bibliography Committee of the Modern Language Association of America and of the American Literature Section of the MLA, Al Robbins participated in the compilation of the MLA Annual Bibliography and the bibliographical lists published in American Literature. In 1965 he joined the effort to revise the finding list of American literary manuscripts, eventually became the editor of the project, and saw it through to publication in 1977. From 1968 to 1988 he was editor and co-editor (with James Woodress) of American Literary Scholarship, an essential research tool for everyone working in the field of American literature.
Al Robbins was a dedicated teacher and a man deeply committed to his profession. Quiet and reticent almost to a fault, he had the student's love of books, the teacher's interest in sharing that love, and the bibliographer's passion for detail and the bedrock of hard facts. But all his professional dedication never detracted him from his love for his family--his wife, Simone, and their daughter, Marise. Through her care and love, Simone supported him and helped to make possible a full and accomplished life. Through her work in environmental biology, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University, Marise has begun her professional career as an environmental consultant in Gainesville, Florida, where Al had found his start in the academic profession more than half a century earlier.
Contributor: NOMDEPLUM (47117241)
J. Albert Robbins, Jr., Professor of English Emeritus, was born on December 5, 1914, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He died March 4, 1992, after thirty-five years on the faculty of Indiana University, from which he retired in 1985. Having moved with his family to St. Petersburg, Florida, when he was about to enter high school, he attended the University of Florida at Gainesville, from which he received both a B.A. (1937) and an M.A. (1938) in English. He also received a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania (1947) and held an appointment as Instructor of English at Duke University (1946-50). He fulfilled his active military service as Communications Officer in the U.S. Navy (1942-45) and eventually achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander (USNR).
Having joined the IU faculty in 1950 as a specialist in American literature and in bibliography, Al Robbins served many generations of undergraduate and graduate students not only through his teaching and scholarship but also through his work as an administrator and member of many faculty committees. He was chairman of the freshman literature program for seven years in the 1950s and vice-chairman of the department in 1967-68. He initiated the Undergraduate Book Collector's Prize and served for twenty years on the University Library Committee.
His scholarship and professional service will continue to be of value to generations of scholars who depend on his meticulous bibliographical work. As a member for more than three decades of the Bibliography Committee of the Modern Language Association of America and of the American Literature Section of the MLA, Al Robbins participated in the compilation of the MLA Annual Bibliography and the bibliographical lists published in American Literature. In 1965 he joined the effort to revise the finding list of American literary manuscripts, eventually became the editor of the project, and saw it through to publication in 1977. From 1968 to 1988 he was editor and co-editor (with James Woodress) of American Literary Scholarship, an essential research tool for everyone working in the field of American literature.
Al Robbins was a dedicated teacher and a man deeply committed to his profession. Quiet and reticent almost to a fault, he had the student's love of books, the teacher's interest in sharing that love, and the bibliographer's passion for detail and the bedrock of hard facts. But all his professional dedication never detracted him from his love for his family--his wife, Simone, and their daughter, Marise. Through her care and love, Simone supported him and helped to make possible a full and accomplished life. Through her work in environmental biology, with undergraduate and graduate degrees from Indiana University, Marise has begun her professional career as an environmental consultant in Gainesville, Florida, where Al had found his start in the academic profession more than half a century earlier.
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