Dahl, Curtis 1920-2004
DAHL, Curtis 1920-2004
OBITUARY NOTICE—
See index for CA sketch: Born July 6, 1920, in New Haven, CT; died April 5, 2004, in Norton, MA. Educator and author. Dahl was an English professor emeritus at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. Educated at Yale, he earned his doctorate there in 1945. After working for two years at the publishing house Dodd, Mead & Co. in New York City, he joined the faculty at the University of Tennessee in 1946. He next accepted a post as an assistant professor at Wheaton College in 1948, rising to professor of English in 1958 and Samuel Valentine Cole Professor of English in 1966; Dahl retired in 1991. A former president of the New England College English Association and the New England American Studies Association, he was the author of Robert Montgomery Bird (1963) and was an editor and contributor to several other scholarly books. His last publication was Around the World in 500 Days: The Circumnavigation of the Merchant Bark Charles Stewart, 1883-1884, Recounted with Zest and Detail (1999), which he edited.
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Chronicle of Higher Education, May 7, 2004, p. A44.