Robert Edward Spoo[1] (born 1957) is a professor and scholar of law and of English, an academic of the law and literature movement, and a Guggenheim Fellowship awardee.[2] From 1988 to 2023, he taught at the University of Tulsa, but joined Princeton University as an endowed professor in 2024.
Biography
Born in 1957, Spoo was educated at Lawrence University, and received a BA degree in English in 1979. This was followed by MA (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees in English from Princeton University.[2] Spoo worked as a lecturer at Princeton from 1984 until he joined the University of Tulsa in 1988. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 2000. He held positions as an attorney at various firms between 2000 and 2008, often simultaneously with his academic appointments. From 2001 to 2002, he was a law clerk of Sonia Sotomayor.[3]
In 2012, Spoo was promoted to Chapman Distinguished Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law. While at Tulsa, he also served as editor of the James Joyce Quarterly.[4] He was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.[5][6] In 2020, the University of Tulsa named Spoo an "outstanding researcher."[7]
Effective on January 1, 2024, Spoo joined the faculty of Princeton University as the endowed Leonard L. Milberg '53 Professor in Irish Letters.[8][9]
Spoo is editor of the Oxford University Press Law and Literature series[10] and author of James Joyce and the Language of History,[11] Without Copyrights,[12] and Modernism and the Law.[13][14] On top of his scholarship on James Joyce, he has also published Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946, a book about Ezra Pound.[15]
References
- ^ "Robert Edward Spoo". Research With Princeton. Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
- ^ a b "Robert Spoo". Department of English. Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Robert Spoo" (Curriculum vitae). Retrieved 2024-07-06 – via Bepress.
- ^ "Robert Spoo". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Robert Spoo '00 Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow". Yale Law School. 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ Fisher, Rich (2016-04-13). "A Chat with TU Law Professor Robert Spoo, a Newly Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow". Public Radio Tulsa. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Spoo honored with Outstanding Researcher Award". The University of Tulsa. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Board approves 24 faculty appointments". Office of Communications. Princeton University. Sep 27, 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Faculty members named to endowed professorships". Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Princeton University. Sep 27, 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "Law and Literature". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ Reviewed in:
- Clio, EBSCOhost 9602210036, ProQuest 221508551, Gale A18144592
- English Literature in Transition, Project MUSE 366799, EBSCOhost 15768362, ProQuest 744349188
- European Legacy, doi:10.1080/10848779808579883, EBSCOhost 6648745
- James Joyce Broadsheet, JSTOR 30076374
- James Joyce Literary Supplement, JSTOR 26635162, ProQuest 2152475732
- James Joyce Quarterly, JSTOR 25473729, EBSCOhost 9608053412, ProQuest 2152142345
- Journal of English and Germanic Philology, JSTOR 27711472, EBSCOhost 9708246101, ProQuest 217926497, Gale A19197358
- Journal of Modern Literature, JSTOR 3831486, EBSCOhost 9711204100
- Modern Fiction Studies, doi:10.1353/mfs.1995.0182, JSTOR 26285609, EBSCOhost 9712193627, ProQuest 208048660
- Modernism/Modernity, doi:10.1353/mod.1995.0049, EBSCOhost 20243940, ProQuest 2152939698
- Philological Quarterly, EBSCOhost 9704021961, ProQuest 211222425, Gale A296836087
- Sewanee Review"", JSTOR 27548603, EBSCOhost 1477426, ProQuest 211910916
- Studies in the Novel, JSTOR 29533142, ProQuest 212692143
- ^ Reviewed in:
- American Historical Review, doi:10.1093/ahr/119.3.917, JSTOR 23784874, EBSCOhost 97625734
- Clio, EBSCOhost 110084487, ProQuest 1721317641
- College & Research Libraries, doi:10.5860/crl.75.5.755, EBSCOhost 97864381, ProQuest 1718054928
- Common Knowledge, doi:10.1215/0961754X-2732976, EBSCOhost 99248287
- Critical Inquiry, Link, doi:10.1086/688299, EBSCOhost 118124374, ProQuest 2152544190
- English Literature in Transition, Project MUSE 603483, EBSCOhost 111378960, ProQuest 1749277371
- Irish Literary Supplement, Gale A382088043
- James Joyce Quarterly, doi:10.1353/jjq.2013.0088, JSTOR 24598858, EBSCOhost 113233481, ProQuest 2152704002
- Journal of Modern Literature, doi:10.2979/jmodelite.39.2.13, Gale A449543113
- Journal of Scholarly Publishing, doi:10.3138/jsp.47.1.BR1, Project MUSE 593635, EBSCOhost 109468909
- Law Library Journal, EBSCOhost 99979121
- Library Journal, EBSCOhost 87800353, Gale A331168897
- Literature & History, doi:10.1177/030619731502400207, EBSCOhost 111811170, ProQuest 2152712266
- Los Angeles Review of Books, Link
- Make It New, Link
- Nation, Link, EBSCOhost 90669563
- New York Journal of Books, Link
- Publishers Weekly, Link, EBSCOhost 88116448
- Reason, Gale A374099000
- Times Literary Supplement, EBSCOhost 94984769, ProQuest 2152621070
- Wilson Quarterly, JSTOR wilsonq.37.3.03, EBSCOhost 89247273
- ^ Reviewed in:
- American Literature, doi:10.1215/00029831-7917514, EBSCOhost 141124893
- Choice, Gale A578046752
- Common Knowledge, Project MUSE 755596
- English Literature in Transition, Project MUSE 743944, EBSCOhost 140825791, ProQuest 2327871549
- James Joyce Literary Supplement, JSTOR 26885294
- James Joyce Quarterly, doi:10.1353/jjq.2019.0049, JSTOR 45173344, EBSCOhost 138994792
- Journal of D. H. Lawrence Studies, Link
- Journal of Modern Literature, doi:10.2979/jmodelite.44.2.15, EBSCOhost 149469769, ProQuest 2505728140, Gale A661611455
- Law & Literature, doi:10.1080/1535685X.2021.1981667, EBSCOhost 155483120
- ProtoView, ProQuest 2108875954
- Review of English Studies, doi:10.1093/res/hgz045, EBSCOhost 139846875
- San Francisco Book Review, Link
- ^ "Robert Spoo". Public Books. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ Spoo, Robert; Pound, Omar (1999). Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946. Oxford University Press.