Robert A. Bryan

Who is Robert A. Bryan?

Robert Armistead Bryan is a former American university professor, administrator and university president. Bryan is a native of Pennsylvania, and earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees before becoming a professor of English literature. He was a long-time professor academic administrator at the University of Florida, and was appointed as the university's interim president, serving from 1989 to 1990. Bryan also served as the interim president of the University of Central Florida from 1991 to 1992, and the interim president of the University of South Florida from 1993 to 1994.

Bryan was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania on April 26, 1926. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, and earned his master of arts and doctor of philosophy degrees in English from the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

He was an English professor who specialized in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature. He taught at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida beginning in 1957, with short-term teaching assignments at Florida Southern College in Lakeland and Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. In each instance, Bryan returned to the faculty of the University of Florida.