Rita K. Gollin

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Rita Kaplan Gollin (born 1928) is a retired professor of English and a scholar of American literature.

Early life and education[]

Gollin was born on January 22, 1928, in Brooklyn, NY. She graduated magna cum laude from Queens College with a B.A. in English in 1949, and received her M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1950.[1] She then went on to earn her doctorate in English from the same university in 1961 under Professor C. H. Foster.[2][3] She worked as a professor in the English Department at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1967 to 2002, where she was named as Distinguished Professor in 1995.[4] Prior to that, she taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Rochester.[5][6] She is a scholar of the life and works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, on whom she has authored several books and many articles. Her 1979 book, Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Truth of Dreams, published by the Louisiana State University Press, is consistently included in Hawthorne bibliographies. Her later publications pursued visual-textual studies, focusing on the iconography of Hawthorne portraiture, and a biography of Hawthorne's publisher's wife, "Annie Adams Fields, Woman of Letters." She has also edited scholarly editions of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. She has received grants[7][8] from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as well as the Grace Ellis Ford Fellowship from the AAUW and a State University of New York Research Foundation Fellowship.[5][9] She was president of the Nathaniel Hawthorne Society from 1981 to 1982[10][11] and of the Northeast Modern Language Association of America (MLA) from 1978 to 1979.[12][13]

Legacy[]

Upon her retirement in 2002, Gollin endowed the Department of English at SUNY Geneseo with the Rita K. Gollin Scholarship for Excellence in American Literature. The award goes to one graduating senior and one junior who have demonstrated excellence in the study of American literature.[14]

References[]

  1. ^ University of Minnesota, March Commencement, 1950. Minneapolis-Saint Paul: University of Minnesota Board of Regents. 1950. p. 17. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  2. ^ University of Minnesota, March Commencement, 1961 (PDF). Minneapolis-Saint Paul: University of Minnesota Board of Regents. 1961. p. 61. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  3. ^ Gollin, R. (1961). Dream and reverie in the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Minneapolis-Saint Paul: Department of English, University of Minnesota.
  4. ^ "Distinguished Professorships". SUNY Geneseo. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Wyld, Lionel D. (1975). American civilization, an introduction to research and bibliography (1st ed.). Deland, FL: Everett/Edwards. pp. 278–279. ISBN 9780912112039.
  6. ^ "Arts are subject of lecture series". Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY. September 11, 1966. p. 5M. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  7. ^ "NEH grant details: American Woman of Letters: Annie Adams Fields, 1834-1915". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  8. ^ "NEH grant details: Annie Fields: Woman of Letters". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  9. ^ "18 at Geneseo State Gain Research Funds". Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY. December 26, 1967. p. 3B. Retrieved November 16, 2020.
  10. ^ "Abstracts of Program Papers" (pdf). The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society Newsletter. 7 (1): 1–3. 1981. JSTOR 44681734. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  11. ^ "The Nathaniel Hawthorne Society". Past Presidents. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  12. ^ Northeast Modern Language Association 40th Convention (PDF) (40th Anniversary ed.). Buffalo, NY: NeMLA. March 2009. p. 9. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  13. ^ "Front matter" (pdf). Modern Language Studies. Battleboro, Vermont: Vermont Printing. 9 (2): 1–3. 1979. JSTOR 3194582. Retrieved November 14, 2020.
  14. ^ "Scholarships and Awards". SUNY Geneseo. Retrieved November 14, 2020.


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