Robert Scholes
Research Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Professor Emeritus of English, Comparative Literature, MCM:
Comparative Literature, Modern Culture and Media
Phone: +1 401 863 2125
Phone 2: +1 401 863 2853
Robert_Scholes@Brown.EDU
The main thing I am doing at present is directing the Modernist Journals Project, which is becoming a major resource for students of modernism. The MJP has now completed an online edition of The New Age magazine, edited by A. R. Orage in London from 1907 to 1922. We now have all of these thirty volumes up in the form of PDF Searchable Image files, with introductions and a full editorial apparatus. With the help of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this project was completed in the spring of 2005. Our goal is to add additional journals and supporting materials that will make this thematic research collection a widely used tool for research and instruction in modernism.
Biography
I majored in English at Yale, graduating in 1950; served on active duty in the U. S. Naval Reserve during the Korean War; received an MA from Cornell in 1956 and a PhD in English in 1959. Since then I have taught mainly at the U. of Virginia, the U. of Iowa, and, since 1970, at Brown. I have published extensively in the areas of narrative studies and modern literature as well as on the profession of English. I have been President of both the Semiotic Society of America and the Modern Language Association. At Brown, I was one of the founders of what is now the Department of Modern Culture and Media. I retired from regular teaching in 1999, and have been a Professor (Research) of MCM since then and Director of the MJP at Brown.
Interests
Robert Scholes is the author of many books and articles on literature, theory, and pedagogy. He is a specialist in modernism. His work has been translated into a number of foreign languages, both European and Asian.
Awards
Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Summer 1960
Research Grant, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Summer, 1961
ACLS Junior Fellow, Humanities Inst., Madison, Wisconsin, 1963-64
Guggenheim Fellow, 1977-78
Mellon Fellow, Tulane University, 1983
Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize (Modern Language Association) for Textual Power, 1986
Honorary Doctorate, Université Lumière Lyon 2, France, 1987
David H. Russell Research Award, National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) for Textual Power, 1988
President, Semiotic Society of America, 1989-90
Elected to Executive Council, Modern Language Association of America, 1997-2000
Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
Francis A. March Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession of English, Association of Departments of English, Modern Language Association, (ADE/MLA), 2000
Chancellor's Medal, Louisiana State University, 2003
Honorary Doctorate, State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase, 2003
National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access Grant for digital edition of The New Age (London, 1907-1922), 2003-2005
President, Modern Language Association of America, 2004
Affiliations
Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association
Teaching
I am retired from full-time teaching but continue to advise both graduate students and undergraduates in a vatiety of departments.
Funded Research
For personal grants I no longer have funding records.
For the 2005 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant, total funding was $296,897 (NEH funding $137,749)
