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Stub article: 'Emily Stipes Watts'
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{{Infobox Writer
|name = Emily Stipes Watts
|image =
|caption =
|image_alt =
| birth_name = Emily Stipes
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|3|16}}
| birth_place = Urbana, Illinois, United States
| death_date =
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| nationality = American
| ethnicity =
| 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)
}}
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Emily Stipes Watts (born 16 March 1936) is an American, retired English language educator and writer. 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).{{cite web
| title = Emily Stipes Watts
| url = http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html?profileId=640603
| publisher = Prabook
| website = prabook.org
| date = 2016
| access-date = 8 April 2016}}
= Early life =
Emily Stipes was born on March 16, 1936 in Urbana, Illinois, United States, the daughter of Royal Arthur Stipes and Virginia Louise Schenck.
She was a student at Smith College until 1956 and then at University of Illinois, where she obtained: a Bachelor of Arts (1958), a Master of Arts (Woodrow Wilson National fellow, 1959), and a PhD for her thesis on Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists (1963).{{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 = http://www.worldcat.org/title/jonathan-edwards-and-the-cambridge-platonists/oclc/19565369
| isbn =
}}
She married Robert Allan Watts on 31 August 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 = 16 June 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). 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://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Hemingway-Arts-Emily-Watts/dp/0252001699/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=
| isbn = 978-0-252-00169-7
| ref = ESW
}}
She was granted a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1973-1974 and appointed associate professor (1973-1977), professor and director of graduate studies at the English department (1977—2005), and professor emerita since 2005. In 1978, she published The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. 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
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Businessman-American-Literature-Emily-Stipes/dp/1587982358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466091742&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Businessman+in+American+Literature
| isbn = 978-1-587-98235-4
| 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
| 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
| website = journals.cambridge.org
| date = 1983
| access-date = 16 June 2016}}
She has been 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 is 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.
= 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 = http://www.worldcat.org/title/jonathan-edwards-and-the-cambridge-platonists/oclc/19565369
| isbn =
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Stipes Watts
| first = Emily
| title = Ernest Hemingway and the Arts
| year = 1971
| publisher = University of Illinois Press
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Hemingway-Arts-Emily-Watts/dp/0252001699/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=
| 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
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Poetry-American-Women-1632-1945/dp/0292764502/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466091698&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Poetry+of+American+Women+from+1632+to+1945
| 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
| url = https://www.amazon.com/Businessman-American-Literature-Emily-Stipes/dp/1587982358/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1466091742&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Businessman+in+American+Literature
| isbn = 978-1-587-98235-4
}}
= External links =
{{cite web
| title = Emily Stipes Watts's Books
| url = http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/311628.Emily_Stipes_Watts
| publisher = Goodreads Inc.
| website = goodreads.com
| access-date = 16 June 2016}}
= References =
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