Career
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Writer, 1922-79. Telling Tales, New York, NY, assistant editor, 1924-25; Southwestern College, Memphis, TN, lecturer in English, 1934-36; University of North Carolina, Women's College, Greensboro, NC, professor of English, 1938-39; Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, poet-in-residence, 1939-42; Library of Congress, Washington, DC, chair of poetry, 1943-44, fellow in American letters, 1944-50; Sewanee Review, Sewanee, TN, editor, 1944-46; New York University, New York, NY, lecturer, 1947-51; University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, visiting professor of humanities, 1949; University of Minnesota—Minneapolis, professor of English, 1951-66, Regents' Professor of English, 1966-68. Member of Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) radio program Invitation to Learning, 1940-41. Fulbright professor, University of Rome, 1953-54, Oxford University, 1958-59. Member of American delegation to UNESCO Conference on the Arts, and American representative to the International Exposition of the Arts (Congress for Cultural Freedom), both 1952. Lecturer for Department of State in England, France, Italy, and India, 1956. Senior fellow, Indiana School of Letters. Visiting lecturer and poet at numerous universities and public readings.
