University of Virginia Library

Chronology

• 1905 Born New Haven, Connecticut, 25 April
• 1917-21 New Haven General High School, New Haven
• 1921-25 Brown University (Ph.B., 1925)
• 1924 Phi Beta Kappa
• 1924-25 Editor-in-Chief, Brown Daily Herald
• 1925-34 Harvard University (Ph.D., 1934)
• 1926-36 Instructor in English and Tutor in the Modern Languages, Harvard University
• 1928 Charles Dexter Scholar, Harvard University (and 1935)
• 1934 Ph.D., Harvard University
• 1936-38 Instructor in English, Princeton University
• 1938-46 Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1942-45 Commander, U.S.N.R., Naval Communications, Washington, D.C.
• 1946-48 Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1948-57 Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1948-91 Editor, Studies in Bibliography
• 1949-64 Professorial Lecturer in English, University of Chicago
• 1952-53 Fulbright Fellow for Advanced Research in the United Kingdom
• 1954 A.S. W. Rosenbach Fellow in Bibliography
• 1954-72 Advisory Board, Shakespeare Quarterly
• 1955-60 Committee on Research Activities, Modern Language Association of America
• 1955-82 New Variorum Shakespeare Committee, MLA
• 1956-59 Regional Chairman, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
• 1957-58 Samuel Sandars Reader in Bibliography, Cambridge University
• 1957-68 Alumni Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1958-59 Guggenheim Fellow
• 1959 James P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography, Oxford University
• 1960 President, Southeastern Renaissance Conference
• 1961-68 Chairman, Department of English, University of Virginia
• 1961-75 Editorial Board, Virginia Quarterly Review
• 1962 Committee on Resolutions, MLA
• 1962-63 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
• 1962-78 Shakespeare Variorum Committee, Modern Language Association of America
• 1963-66 Executive Council, MLA
• 1964 Bicentennial Medal, Brown University
• 1966-68 English Program Advisory Committee, MLA
• 1967-70 MLA Delegate to American Council of Learned Societies Executive Committee, South Atlantic Modern Language Association (Vice-President, 1968; president, 1969)

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• 1968 Corresponding Fellow, The British Academy Election to American Antiquarian Society
• 1968-69 Dean of the Faculty, University of Virginia
• 1968-75 Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, University of Virginia
• 1969 Gold Medal, The Bibliographical Society, London
• 1970 Doctor of Letters, Clark University Doctor of Letters, Brown University Guggenheim Fellow [taken up in 1972] Research Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
• 1970-74 Advisory Board, University Press of Virginia
• 1971 Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia
• 1972 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford Research Scholar, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
• 1973 Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Chicago
• 1974 Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
• 1975-91 Emeritus Linden Kent Memorial Professor, University of Virginia
• 1975 Fellow Commoner, Churchill College, Cambridge
• 1985 International Conference on Bibliography and Editing in Honor of Fredson Bowers's Eightieth Birthday, University of Virginia, 20-23 April. [See Fredson Bowers at Eighty (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1985, reprinted from Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 79 [Second Quarter 1985]), 54 p., including articles by G. Thomas Tanselle, David J. Nordloh, and David L. Vander Meulen.]
• 1985-87 President, Society for Textual Scholarship Research Fellow, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California
• 1986 Election to Honorary Membership, Bibliographical Society of America Julian P. Boyd Award, Association for Documentary Editing
• 1989 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, Huntington Library
• 1991 Died Charlottesville, Virginia, 11 April