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Date of this Version
Fall 2006
Document Type
Article
Citation
Documentary Editing, Volume 28, Number 3, Fall 2006. ISSN 0196-7134
Abstract
Joel Porte, 72, Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Emeritus at Cornell University, died of esophageal cancer on 1 June 2006. He came to Cornell in 1987 after twenty-five years in the Harvard English Department, including service as its chair. Through a forty-year career at both universities he gained international recognition as a scholar of American literature and a specialist in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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