Myra Jehlen
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1940 –
Who is Myra Jehlen?
Myra Jehlen is Board of Governors Professor of English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was awarded a Ph.D. from the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley for her dissertation on William Faulkner, directed by Henry Nash Smith, a founding scholar of the field of American Studies. She holds a BA from City College of the City University of New York. She has taught at New York University, Columbia University, The State University of New York, College at Purchase, and the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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- Born
- Mar 3, 1940
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
American studies
( - 1968)
- PhD, University of California, Berkeley
- Lived in
- New Jersey
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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