Department of English
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr.
Assistant Professor in English
1923 Ph.D. Graduate
Dissertation Advisor(s):
"The Manchester School of Dramatists"
Dissertation Advisor(s):
"The Manchester School of Dramatists"
Frank Alan Laurie, Jr. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1909, and the following year he taught English in Robert College, Constantinople. Then he traveled and studied throughout Europe.
He joined the English Department as an Assistant Professor in 1920.
He retired June 30th, 1958.
Doctoral Dissertations Chaired
1957
Abby Ann Sutherland
"Robert Burns and James Hogg: A Comparison "
1952
Ammon George Kershner Jr
"Ralph Hodgson: A Biographical and Critical Study "
1947
Mary Cathryne Park
"Joseph Priestley and the Problem of Pantisocracy"
1936
Claude Searcy McIver
"William Somerset Maugham: A Study of Technique and Literary Sources"
1934
Harry W. Mountjoy
"The Comic Fantasy in English Fiction of the Victorian Period"