Richard Malcolm Weaver Papers
Dates
- 1940s - 1960s
Creator
- Weaver, Richard Malcolm (Person)
Language of Materials
Biographical Sketch
- March 3, 1910 Born in Asheville, North Carolina. Lived in Weaverville, North Carolina.
- 1916 Family moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
- 1927-1932 Attended University of Kentucky. Member of Phi Beta Kappa. Received A.B. degree.
- 1933-1936 Attended Vanderbilt University. Was a teaching fellow. Received masters in English.
- 1936-1937 Instructor in English at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
- 1937-1940 Acting assistant professor at Texas A & M.
- 1940-1943 Student at Louisiana State University where he worked with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. Attended summer sessions at the Sorbonne, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
- May 1943 Received Ph.d from Louisiana State University.
- 1944-1963 Professor of English at the University of Chicago
- 1948 Wrote Ideas Have Consequences.
- 1949 Won University of Chicago Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
- 1953 Wrote The Ethics of Rhetoric.
- 1957 Wrote Composition: A Course in Writing and Rhetoric.
- 1958 Participant in Vanderbilt University Literary Symposium.
- 1962 Received Young Americans for Freedom award for "service to education and the philosophy of a free society."
- April 9, 1963 Died in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1964 Visions of Order published.
- March 3, 1910
- Born in Asheville, North Carolina. Lived in Weaverville, North Carolina.
- 1916
- Family moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
- 1927-1932
- Attended University of Kentucky. Member of Phi Beta Kappa. Received A.B. degree.
- 1933-1936
- Attended Vanderbilt University. Was a teaching fellow. Received masters in English.
- 1936-1937
- Instructor in English at Alabama Polytechnic Institute.
- 1937-1940
- Acting assistant professor at Texas A & M.
- 1940-1943
- Student at Louisiana State University where he worked with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren. Attended summer sessions at the Sorbonne, Harvard University and the University of Virginia.
- May 1943
- Received Ph.d from Louisiana State University.
- 1944-1963
- Professor of English at the University of Chicago
- 1948
- Wrote Ideas Have Consequences.
- 1949
- Won University of Chicago Quantrell Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
- 1953
- Wrote The Ethics of Rhetoric.
- 1957
- Wrote Composition: A Course in Writing and Rhetoric.
- 1958
- Participant in Vanderbilt University Literary Symposium.
- 1962
- Received Young Americans for Freedom award for "service to education and the philosophy of a free society."
- April 9, 1963
- Died in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1964
- Visions of Order published.
Extent
2.52 Linear Feet
Physical Location
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Creator
- Weaver, Richard Malcolm (Person)
- Title
- Finding Aid for the Richard Malcolm Weaver Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Vanderbilt University Special Collections Repository
Jean and Alexander Heard Library
419 21st Avenue South
Nashville TN 37203 United States
specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu