English Emeriti Faculty
Oberlin College awards emeritus status to faculty members who have provided distinguished service to their academic departments during their tenure.
The following professors have retired from the Oberlin College Department of English; many remain engaged members of the English department community.
- Phyllis Gorfain
- John Hobbs
- Nicholas Jones (personal website)
- Katherine Linehan
- Robert Longsworth
- T. S. McMillin
- Anuradha Needham
- Robert Pierce
Biography
Robert Pierce is an emeritus professor of English at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, having taught there for forty years until his retirement in 2004. He has published a book on Shakespeare‘s history plays and articles on Shakespeare, Early Modern topics, literary theory, the intersection of literature and philosophy, various other subjects, and, recently, a short book on Richard Wilbur’s hymn text “A stable-lamp is lighted.” He still lives in Oberlin with Barbara, his wife of fifty-seven years and retired editor of the Braille Monitor. They have three grown children, one of whom teaches education at Stonehill College in Massachusetts and one African history at the University of Manchester. The third is an office and computer manager for a nonprofit in Cleveland, Ohio.
- Leonard Podis
- Carol Tufts
- David Walker
- David Young (personal website)
- Sandra Zagarell