John William Cunliffe

John William Cunliffe, 1920

John William Cunliffe (January 20, 1865 in Bolton, Lancashire ^[1] - 1946) was a scholar and writer. He was a professor and English department chairman at Columbia University ^[2] and also directed the school's journalism department. ^{[3] [4]}

Career

Cunliffe was one of the contributing editors to the Library of the World's Best Literature . He coauthored an introduction to one of the revised, updated, and expanded editions. ^[5] He was succeeded at Columbia by Carl W. Ackerman. ^[6]

In March 1928, Columbia University Press announced a plan to publish a survey of literature chaired by Cunliffe. ^[7] Columbia University has a collection of English department correspondence that includes Cunliffe. ^[8]

Bibliography

• Poems of the Great War by John William Cunliffe, The Macmillan Company, 1916 on behalf of the Belgian scholarship committee ISBN   9781103867745
• Leaders of the Victorian revolution (1934) by John William Cunliffe
• The influence of Seneca on Elizabethan tragedy (1893) by John William Cunliffe
• English literature during the last half-century (1919) by John William Cunliffe, a collection of essays
• English literature in the twentieth century (1933) by John William Cunliffe
• The complete works of George Gascoigne (1907) by George Gascoigne edited by John William Cunliffe
• Modern English playwrights; a short history of the English drama from 1825 (1927) by John William Cunliffe
• The Columbia University Course in Literature : Writers of Modern America, John W. Cunliffe (Chairman), Columbia University Press, New York, 1929
• Early English classical tragedies (1912) by John William Cunliffe
• Century readings for a course in English literature (1910) by John William Cunliffe
• Writing of Today : Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe
• College English Composition (article) ^[9]

References

1. CUNLIFFE, John William, in Who's Who in America (14th edition, 1926); p. 542
2. "Cunliffe, John William 1865-1946". worldcat.org. WorldCat Identities.
3. "J.W. Cunliffe". loc.gov. Library of Congress.
4. "COLUMBIA ALTERS JOURNALISM POLICY; J.W. Cunliffe, Director, Tells Plans to Make Courses More Useful to News Students. REPORTING TO BE STRESSED Laboratory Work in Copy Editing Will Be Concentrated -- Other Changes Are Announced". The New York Times . 24 January 1926.
5. "John William Cunliffe and Ashley Horace Thorndike. Preface. Warner, et al., comp. 1917. The Library of the World's Best Literature". www.bartleby.com.
6. Boylan, James R.; Boylan, Professor James (28 November 2018). Pulitzer's School: Columbia University's School of Journalism, 1903-2003. Columbia University Press. ISBN   9780231130905 – via Google Books.
7. "Columbia Daily Spectator 5 March 1928 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Columbia University.
8. Columbia University English Department Correspondence, 1896-1961 www.columbia.edu › Libraries Home
9. Cunliffe, John W. (28 November 2018). "College English Composition". The English Journal. 1 (10): 591–600. doi:10.2307/801824. JSTOR   801824.