Scope and Contents From the Series: J. Robert Barth, SJ, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1931 and attended Bellarmine College and Fordham University before receiving his doctorate in English from Harvard University. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1948 and was ordained in 1961. After teaching at Harvard and the University of Missouri in Columbia, Barth arrived at Boston College in 1985 as the Thomas I. Gasson Professor for English. He became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1988, where he remained until his...

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Scope and Contents From the Series: J. Robert Barth, SJ, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1931 and attended Bellarmine College and Fordham University before receiving his doctorate in English from Harvard University. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1948 and was ordained in 1961. After teaching at Harvard and the University of Missouri in Columbia, Barth arrived at Boston College in 1985 as the Thomas I. Gasson Professor for English. He became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1988, where he remained until his...

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Scope and Contents From the Series: J. Robert Barth, SJ, was born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1931 and attended Bellarmine College and Fordham University before receiving his doctorate in English from Harvard University. He entered the Society of Jesus in 1948 and was ordained in 1961. After teaching at Harvard and the University of Missouri in Columbia, Barth arrived at Boston College in 1985 as the Thomas I. Gasson Professor for English. He became the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences in 1988, where he remained until his...

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Collection is open for research.