Thomas Vargish | |
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Born | February 1939 |
Died | September 2023 |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) |
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Discipline | English literature |
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Thomas Vargish (born February 13,1939) was an American scholar of literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College. [1]
Vargish was born on February 13,1939,in Granville,New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1960. That year,he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Merton College,Oxford, [2] and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vargish's brother,Stephan Vargish,was also a Rhodes Scholar. [3] [4] He taught at Dartmouth College,University of Maryland,Baltimore County, [5] University of Gothenburg,and the United States Air Force Academy. [6]
Vargish earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 to work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction. [7] [8] [9] He has also authored books on relativity and cubism with Dartmouth physicist Delo Mook,father of political strategist Robby Mook. [10] [11] [12]
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