| Academic Child: A Memoir Contributor(s): Adams, Hazard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0786440112 ISBN-13: 9780786440115 Publisher: McFarland & Company OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2008 Annotation: This memoir tells the story of the author's experiences with and in academia, describing a life-long professional career in education and academics. Now professor emeritus at the University of Washington's department of comparative literature, it's little surprise that the author grew up as the child of academically-minded parents, both teachers at Cleveland's Hawken School. Fittingly, the memoir begins here, telling of his family's experiences at Hawken before following through to the author's education at Seattle's Lakeside School and later the United States Marine Corps, Princeton, and the University of Washington. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Educators - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2008032255 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.85 lbs) 278 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A leading scholar of English romanticism and literary theory and criticism, Hazard Adams writes of a lifetime as a student, a teacher and an academic administrator. The child of academically-minded parents, both teachers at Cleveland's Hawken School, Adams tells of his family's experiences at Hawken and later Seattle's Lakeside School, then his Marine Corps service and education at Princeton and the University of Washington. In addition to an illuminating account of his academic career--his experiences researching and teaching in Ireland, his administrative work in the founding faculty at the University of California's Irvine campus, and finally his experiences under the first endowed professorship in the humanities at the University of Washington--the memoir also voyages into memories of family, friends and colleagues and offers singularly well-informed comments on the current state of higher education and the academic experience. |