Emily Stipes Watts
{{Short description|American academic}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox Writer
|name = Emily Stipes Watts
|image =
|caption =
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| birth_name = Emily Stipes
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|3|16}}
| birth_place = Urbana, Illinois, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|3|12|1936|3|16}}
| death_place = Urbana, Illinois, United States
| death_cause =
| occupation = Professor of English, writer
| period = 1963–2005
| genre = Essays, literary criticism
| subject = Arts, poetry, literature
| education = Smith College, University of Illinois, PhD. Arts, 1963
| spouse = Robert Allan Watts
(30 August 1958)
| children =
| awards = John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellow (1973-1974)
}}
Emily Stipes Watts (March 16, 1936 – March 12, 2018) was an American educator, writer, and literary historian.{{sfn|Wagner-Martin|2013|p=78}} In parallel with her academic career, she wrote Ernest Hemingway and the Arts (1971), The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 (1978) and The Businessman in American Literature (1982). A laureate of the Guggenheim Fellowship, she also served as chair of the Illinois Board of Higher Education.
Early life
Emily Stipes was born March 16, 1936, in Urbana, Illinois, the daughter of Royal Arthur Stipes Jr. and Virginia Louise Schenck.{{cite web
| title = Emily Watts obituary
| url = http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2018-03-14/emily-watts.html
| publisher = The News-Gazette
| website = news-gazette.com
| date = March 14, 2018
| access-date = March 18, 2018}} She was a student at Smith College until 1956 and then at University of Illinois, where she obtained: a BA (1958), a MA (Woodrow Wilson National fellow, 1959), and a PhD for her thesis on Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists (1963).{{cite web |title= CUSF Celebrates 5 of Our Public High School Alumni at 2011 Gala |url= http://cuschoolsfoundation.org/cusf-celebrates-5-of-our-public-high-school-alumni-at-2011-gala/ |publisher= CU Schools Foundation |website= cuschoolsfoundation.org |date= April 22, 2011 |access-date= March 18, 2018 |archive-date= March 19, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180319004027/http://cuschoolsfoundation.org/cusf-celebrates-5-of-our-public-high-school-alumni-at-2011-gala/ |url-status= dead }}{{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists
| type = Thesis/dissertation
| year = 1963
| publisher = University of Illinois
| location = Urbana
| url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19565369
| isbn =
| oclc = 19565369
}} She married Robert Allan Watts on August 31, 1958.{{cite web
| title = Robert Watts obituary
| url = http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2012-06-26/robert-watts.html
| publisher = The News-Gazette
| website = news-gazette.com
| access-date = June 16, 2016}}
Career
Stipes Watts was appointed instructor in the English language department at the University of Illinois at Urbana (1963-1967), and then assistant professor (1967-1973).{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} In 1971, she published Ernest Hemingway and the Arts.{{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = Ernest Hemingway and the Arts
| year = 1971
| publisher = University of Illinois Press
| url = https://archive.org/details/ernesthemingwaya0000watt
| isbn = 978-0-252-00169-7
| ref = ESW
}}
She was granted a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1973-1974{{cite web |title= Emily Stipes Watts |url= https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/emily-stipes-watts/ |publisher= John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |website= gf.org |access-date= March 18, 2018}} and appointed associate professor (1973-1977), professor and director of graduate studies at the English department (1977—2005),{{cite web |first= Tracy |last= Crane |publisher = The News-Gazette |title= A Life Remembered. UI English professor, author recalled for brilliance |url= http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2018-03-16/life-remembered-ui-english-professor-author-recalled-brilliance.html |website= news-gazette.com |date= March 16, 2018 |access-date= March 18, 2018}} and professor emerita since 2005. In 1978, she published The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945.{{cite book |last= Stipes Watts |first= Emily |title= The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
|year= 1978 |publisher= University of Texas Press |location= Austin, Texas |isbn= 0-292-76450-2}}
Stipes Watts was appointed chairman of the Board of directors of the University of Illinois Athletic Association (1981-1983). In 1982, she published The Businessman in American Literature.{{cite book |last= Stipes Watts
|first= Emily |title= The Businessman in American Literature |year= 1982 |edition= 1st
|publisher= Beard Books |location= Frederick, Maryland |isbn= 978-1-587-98235-4}}{{cite book |last= Stipes Watts |first= Emily |title= The Businessman in American Literature |year= 2004 |edition= 2nd |publisher= Beard Books |location= Frederick, Maryland |url= https://ecommerce.beardbooks.com/beardbooks/the_businessman_in_american_literature.html
|isbn= 1-587-98235-8}}{{cite journal |first= C. L. |last= Sonnichsell
|title= Book Reviews: The Businessman in American Literature |url= http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=8338836&fileId=S0007680500052028 |publisher= Cambridge University Press
|journal= Business History Review |date= 1983 |volume= 57
|issue= 2
|pages= 276–277
|doi= 10.2307/3114359
|jstor= 3114359
|s2cid= 156732486
|access-date= June 16, 2016}}
She was a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education since 1984, and became its vice chairman (1986-1987), then chairman (1987-1988). Stipes Watts was also a member of the American Institute of Archaeology, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, the Authors Guild, the Illinois History Society, The Philadelphia Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
Works
- {{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists
| type = Thesis/dissertation
| year = 1963
| publisher = University of Illinois
| location = Urbana
| url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19565369
| isbn =
| oclc = 19565369
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = Ernest Hemingway and the Arts
| year = 1971
| publisher = University of Illinois Press
| url = https://archive.org/details/ernesthemingwaya0000watt
| isbn = 978-0-252-00169-7
| ref = ESW
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945
| year = 1978
| publisher = University of Texas Press
| location = Austin, Texas
| isbn = 0-292-76450-2
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = The Businessman in American Literature
| year = 1982
| publisher = Beard Books
| location = Frederick, Maryland
| isbn = 978-1-587-98235-4
}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{cite book|last=Wagner-Martin|first=L.|title=Emily Dickinson: A Literary Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j5NEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT78|date=14 November 2013|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|isbn=978-1-137-03306-2|quote="Literary historian Emily Stipes Watts points out that during the mid-nineteenth century, people wrote poems suitable for children's reading, regardless of how that work was described. Many of Dickinson's short poems might well have been considered appropriate for children and their instruction. In Watts' words, the poems were not differentiated."}}
External links
- [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/311628.Emily_Stipes_Watts Emily Stipes Watts] at Goodreads Inc.
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