Person

Whicher, Stephen E.

1915–1961

Stephen Emerson Whicher June 16, 1915 - November 13, 1961. ... Professor of English at Cornell ... had a broad and varied academic experience before coming to Cornell in 1957. He had been a teaching fellow at Harvard (1938-1942), an instructor at the University of Rochester (1942-1943) and at Harvard (1946), and a member of the English Department at Swarthmore (Assistant Professor, 1947-1952; Associate Professor, 1952-1957). He had also taught summers at Pennsylvania State University (1948) and New York University (1954-1955). A specialist in American literature, he was also interested in modern drama, and had read widely in Latin, Greek, French, German, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish literature ...