Madeleine Doran

Madeleine Kathryn Doran (August 12, 1905 – October 19, 1996) was an American literary critic and poet who taught at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1935 until her retirement in 1975.^[1] Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, Doran graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in 1927. She received her M.A. from the University of Iowa in 1928, and her Ph.D. in 1930 from Stanford. She joined the English department at the University of Wisconsin in 1935, and was made a full professor in 1952.^[1]

Doran's work combined historical and formalist impulses. Her most famous work, Endeavors of Art, analyzed

indicated authorial revision was largely unpersuasive when it appeared in the 1930s; however, the argument was taken up by later critics and has proved influential in recent critical and editorial practice.

Doran was also a poet. Her volumes are a collection of essays, Something About Swans (1973) and Time's Foot (1974); the latter volume won the Banta Award of the Wisconsin Library Association. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1972.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Smail, Laura L.; Taylor, Donna S. "In Their Own Words: Excerpts From Oral History Interviews". Retrieved July 22, 2014.
2. ^ Madeleine Doran, Endeavors of Art, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1954; pp. 3.
3. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter D" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved July 22, 2014.

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