| dc.contributor.other | Jean and Alexander Heard Library. Special Collections and University Archives | |
| dc.coverage.spatial | United States | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | 1922-1977 | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-19T14:24:53Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-12-19T14:24:53Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1803/5552 | |
| dc.description | Finding aid for a collection. Collection description: Rob Roy Purdy was born in Pensacola, Florida in 1914. He died in Nashville on March 24, 1988 at the age of 74. He graduated from Davidson College, and came to Vanderbilt in 1937. After receiving his master degree he taught at Florence State College in Alabama for a year and served for two years in the Navy during World War II. He then returned to Vanderbilt for his Ph.D. in English. He became a member of the Vanderbilt English Faculty, and rose to the rank of full professor teaching courses in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Chaucer and in Shakespeare and Southern American Literature. In 1959 Professor Purdy became Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University. At his retirement in 1979 he was awarded the titles of Professor of English, Emeritus and Senior Vice-Chancellor Emeritus.
These papers are contained in 22 Hollinger boxes comprising 9.174 linear feet of manuscript material and are made up of these series:
Writings
Academic Career
1956 Fugitive Reunion
Administrative Career
Writings by Others
Publications | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/mss/purdyrr/purdy-rob-roy.shtml | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 1 document (21 pages) | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/PDF | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Vanderbilt University | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Jean and Alexander Heard Library | en_US |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/speccol/index.shtml | |
| dc.subject | Rob Roy Purdy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Vanderbilt University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Education | en_US |
| dc.subject | Teaching Papers | en_US |
| dc.subject | English Literature | en_US |
| dc.subject | Fugitives and Agrarians | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Purdy, Rob Roy (1914-1988) | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | English Literature | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Fugitives-Agrarians (Group of writers) | en_US |
| dc.title | Rob Roy Purdy Papers Finding Aid | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | |
| dc.type | Finding aid | |
| dc.source.collection | Rob Roy Purdy Papers. Vanderbilt University, Special Collections and University Archives. Coll #348. | en_US |
