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Edward H. Davidson (1912- ) received his bachelor's degree from American University in 1934 and his Ph.D from Yale in 1940. He taught at Ohio University and Hunter College before joining the English faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1951. In 1962-63 he served as Visiting Professor at Harvard, and in 1965 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Research and scholarship interests include the work of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathan Edwards, and Edgar Allen Poe. Professor Davidson retired in 1980.
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2/22/2001; 1/24/2005
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Papers (1918-2001) of Edward Hutchins Davidson (1912-2009), Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1955-1980), consisting of personal and professional correspondence (1942-2000); and professional writings, lectures, notes, and source material (1940-2001) pertaining to Davidson's research and teaching activities, particularly focusing on nineteenth and early twentieth century British and American writers and poets; correspondence with friends, relatives, colleagues, and doctoral students, including Hilda (Galliher) Curry (1984-1998); Emory Elliott, Jr. (1962-1997); Mary Ann Hill (1998-1999); William Howarth (1997-2000); Lee M. Hutchins (1967-1978); Claudia Johnson (1998-1999); Bernard Rosenthal (1966-2000); William J. Scheick (1997-2000); and George Tabor (1959-1998); subjects of special research interest include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jonathan Edwards, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allen Poe, University of Illinois professor Gordon Ray, and the history of the Emmanuel Memorial Episcopal Church (Champaign, Ill.).