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Robert Woodrow Langbaum (born February 23, 1924) is an American author. He is University of Virginia James Branch Cabell prof. English and Am. lit. (1967–1999), prof. emeritus (1999–today). == Biography == Robert Langbaum, English literature educator and literary critic, was born February 23, 1924, son of Murray and Nettie Langbaum (Moskowitz). Langbaum married Francesca Levi Vidale, November 5, 1950; one child Donata Emily, 1956. Langbaum was born in Brooklyn NY, and grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. From 1936 to 1940, he attended Newtown High School where in 1939 he met Francesca, who with her family immigrated from Italy after the Fascist government began persecuting Jews. Langbaum began his undergraduate studies at Cornell, with tuition scholarships, in 1940. After America’s entry into World War II, he left at the end of his sophomore year to study Japanese at New York University. In 1942 he enlisted in the US Army Military Intelligence to be trained as a Japanese translator and interrogator, achieving the rank of 1st Lieutenant. After Japan’s surrender in 1945, he with a small group from his unit were sent to Japan to find documents for war crimes trials and to bring back 2nd copies of Japanese library books for the Library of Congress. In 1947 he returned to Cornell for a semester to obtain his B. A. degree. He then, with the help of the GI bill, began studies at Columbia University for his M. A. and PhD in English Literature, where he was influenced by Lionel Trilling and Jacques Barzun. He obtained his PhD in 1954 while working as an Instructor at Cornell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.whoislog.info/profile/Langbaum-langbaum.html )〕 From 1955-60, Langbaum served as Assistant Professor at Cornell. He then moved to the University of Virginia, where he held the positions of Associate Professor of English (1960-3), Professor of English (1963-1967), and James Branch Cabell Professor of English and American Literature (1967–99). He was a Visiting Professor at Columbia during the summer of 1960 and the academic year 1965-6; at Harvard in the summer of 1965; and Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1978. Langbaum has delivered lectures at the Wordsworth Summer Conference (1974-8), at the University of Berne in Geneva (1979), in Israel in 1979, at the Browning Centennial Conference at Baylor University (1989), and at the First International Academic Conference on James Joyce in China (1996). In 1988, he lectured in Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong in 1988 for the United States Information Agency. He has received fellowships from the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford University (1961-2), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1969-1970), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1972-3), the University of Virginia Center for Advanced Studies (1982), and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center (1987), and grants from American Council of Learned Societies (1961, 75-6). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Langbaum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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