Title: Knickerbocker Family Papers

Date/Date Range :   1964-1978

Extent: 0.1 linear feet

Abstract:

In this collection, the Knickerbocker Family Papers, 1964-1978, are a resume for Robert Keats Knickerbocker and several forms pertaining to the International Association of University Professors of English (I.A.U.P.E.) and its 1980 conference in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Call number: MS-2335

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Aquisition Information:

This collection is property of the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library.

Access Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Copyright:

The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of Item], Knickerbocker Family Papers, MS-2335. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Collection consists of a single folder.

Dr. Kenneth L. Knickerbocker was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1905. He graduated from Southern Methodist University and received his Ph.D. from Yale University. In 1946, Dr. Knickerbocker joined the University of Tennessee faculty as a professor of English. From 1957 to 1963, Dr. Knickerbocker served as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He was appointed academic vice-president for the university system in 1971 and held the post until 1973 when he returned to teaching. He retired in 1975.

Kenneth Knickerbocker fathered Robert Keats Knickerbocker in 1935. He attended Knoxville Central High School and the Southern Methodist University. In Dallas, Texas, Robert was president of his real estate company.

An international group of English professors decided to convene an international congress of English Studies. The first conference was held in Oxford in 1950. The International Association of University Professors of English, to which Kenneth Knickerbocker belonged, began in 1951. Triennial conferences have been continually held since 1950.

In this collection, the Knickerbocker Family Papers, 1964-1978, are a resume for Robert Keats Knickerbocker and several forms pertaining to the International Association of University Professors of English (I.A.U.P.E.) and its 1980 conference in Aberdeen, Scotland. One of the I.A.U.P.E. documents contains the name K. L. Knickerbocker. The resume dates to 1964 and the I.A.U.P.E. items to 1978. There is nothing in between these two years.

The UT Special Collections has the Kenneth L. Knickerbocker Papers, 1926-1975, in MS-1706. Mostly contained in this collection are personal diaries from the 1930's and 1940's.

• English literature -- History and criticism.
• English language.