Finding Aid
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Papers of Norman Foerster
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Scope and Contents
The Norman Foerster Papers concern the administration of the University of Iowa School of Letters, Foerster’s role in College of Liberal Arts curriculum revision, and his resignation. Correspondents include W.R. Boyd (Finance Committee, State Board of Education), Roy C. Flickinger (classics), George K. Kay (liberal arts dean), and other Iowa faculty.
Biographical Note
Norman Foerster was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 14, 1887, and died in Palo Alto, California, on August 1, 1972. The last name is pronounced “Firster.” His degrees were A.B., Harvard University, 1910; M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1912; Litt.D., University of the South, 1931; D.H.L., Grinnell College, 1946; and Litt.D., University of North Carolina, 1948. Foerster taught English at Wisconsin, North Carolina, Iowa, Duke, and other schools. At Iowa he was director of the School of Letters, 1930-1944, resigning in a dispute about curriculum revision. He was also a prominent member of the New Humanist movement of the early twentieth century. Foerster wrote or edited many books on American literature and higher education.
Related Materials
Cartier, Jacqueline Marie. “Wilbur Schramm and the Beginnings of American Communication Theory: A History of Ideas,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1988.
Falk, Robert and Robert E. Lee, “In Memoriam: Norman Foerster 1887-1972,” American Literature 44 (January 1973): 679 -- 680.
Flanagan, Frances Mary. “The Educational Role of Norman Foerster,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 1971.
Glander, Timothy Richard Glander. “Education and the Mass Media: The Origins of Mass Communications Research in the United States, 1939-1955,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Illinois, 1990.
Graff, Gerald. Professing Literature: An Institutional History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Hoeveler, J. David Hoeveler, Jr. The New Humanism: A Critique of Modern America, 1900-1940 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1977).
Kelly, Gilbert Bruce. “Norman Foerster and American New Humanist Criticism,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska, 1982.
Lambert, John Stephen. “The Humanist Movement in American Criticism,” Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1967.
Schuster, Richard. “Norman Foerster as a Critic of American Literature,” M.A. thesis, Columbia University, 1948.
Other Foerster papers are at Stanford University.
Box Contents List
Box 1
1930 -- 1935
1936 -- 1939
1940 -- 1943
1944 -- 1945
1965 -- 1971
not dated
