Stuart Tave

Stuart Malcolm Tave (born April 10, 1923) is an American literary scholar.

Tave graduated from Columbia University, earned a master's degree at Harvard University, and completed a D. Phil at the University of Oxford. Tave taught at the University of Chicago, where he served as chair of the English department, dean of the Division of the Humanities, and William Rainey Harper Professor.[1][2] He received a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the institution in 1958,[1] and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959.[3] Upon his retirement in 1993,[2] Tave was granted emeritus status.[1] In 2000, the University of Chicago honored him as that year's Norman Maclean Award winner.[1][4]

Stuart Tave served in the United States Navy from 1943 to 1946, including at the landing at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon. He served with the Strategic Bombing Survey during the occupation of Japan and penned an article about standing watch on the Japanese battleship Nagato, published October 1998.[5]

  1. ^ a b c d Fournier, Arthur (25 May 2000). "Stuart Tave is honored with annual prize named for Norman Maclean". The University of Chicago Chronicle. Vol. 19, no. 17. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  2. ^ a b Chandler, James (August 1993). "Some Words for Stuart Tave: Excerpts from a Tribute at His University Retirement Party, Spring 1993". Modern Philology. 91 (1). doi:10.1086/mp.91.1.438727. JSTOR 438727. S2CID 163860171.
  3. ^ "Stuart M. Tave". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  4. ^ "For the record". The University of Chicago Magazine. Vol. 92, no. 6. August 2000. Some words on Tave. Retrieved 10 February 2019.
  5. ^ Tave, Stuart (October 1998). "At Sea on the Nagato". U.S. Naval Institute. Naval History Magazine. Retrieved 10 April 2024.