Linda Van Norden
Linda Van Norden | |
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| Born | October 26, 1905 Sacramento, California, U.S. |
| Died | June 26, 1972 (aged 66) Davis, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Literary scholar |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1956) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | The Elizabethan college of antiques (1946) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Renaissance studies |
| Institutions | |
Linda Van Norden (October 26, 1905 – June 26, 1972) was an American literary scholar. She worked as a professor at the College of Puget Sound and the University of California, Davis, remaining at the latter until her death. A 1956 Guggenheim Fellow, her book The Black Feet of the Peacock was posthumously published in 1985.
Biography
[edit]Van Norden was born on October 26, 1905 in Sacramento.[1][2] She was the daughter of Ruth Spilman and Charles Van Norden, the latter of whom was an author, Congregationalist minister, and president of Elmira College.[1][3] She attended Stanford University, where she got her bachelor degree in 1924 and master degree in 1927; the University of Bordeaux, where she got a certificate in 1925; and University of Paris.[1][4]
Van Norden obtained her PhD from University of California, Los Angeles in 1946;[4] her doctoral dissertation was titled The Elizabethan college of antiques.[5] She was an assistant professor at the College of Puget Sound from 1930 to 1946, when she moved to the University of California, Davis.[4] She was promoted from assistant professor to associate professor in 1952.[4]
A scholar of Renaissance studies, Van Norden studied alchemy, iconography, and literature with the field.[1] In 1956, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[6] to study English late-Renaissance literature.[4] She was working on her book The Black Feet of the Peacock – focusing on the color black in Renaissance literature – at the time of her death.[1] It was finally published in 1985, compiled and edited by John Pollock.[7] She was a co-founder and a president of the Northern California Renaissance Conference,[1] and her Biblical literary studies courses in the field were popular among UC Davis students.[1]
Van Norden died on June 26, 1972.[1] Her body was found at her home in Davis with several of her papers and books in the same room.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Harsh, Wayne; Grimm, Richard F.; Wright, Celeste T. (1975). "Linda Van Norden, English: Davis". University of California: In Memoriam, July 1975. p. 154-155. Archived from the original on January 24, 2025. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
- ^ a b "Long-time English prof is found dead". Davis Enterprise. June 27, 1972. p. 1 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "BRYAN VAN NORDEN". What Is It Like to Be a Philosopher?. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
- ^ a b c d e Reports of the Secretary and of the Treasurer. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1955. p. 173. Archived from the original on May 22, 2023. Retrieved June 27, 2025.
- ^ Van Norden, Linda (1946). The Elizabethan college of antiques (PhD thesis). University of California, Los Angeles. OCLC 222246067.
- ^ "Linda Van Norden". Guggenheim Fellows. Retrieved June 26, 2025.
- ^ Cheney, Margaret E. (1991). "Books Received". Milton Quarterly. 25 (2): 69–78. ISSN 0026-4326. JSTOR 24464595.
| International | |
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| National | |
- 1905 births
- 1972 deaths
- American academics of English literature
- Historians of the Renaissance
- 20th-century American academics
- 20th-century American women academics
- Writers from Sacramento, California
- People from Davis, California
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Bordeaux alumni
- University of Paris alumni
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- University of Puget Sound faculty
- University of California, Davis faculty