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The Biographical Profile of Louise Rosenblatt

Education

Barnard College: B.A. (honors), 1925; University of Grenoble: Certificat d’etudes, 1926; Sorbonne, University of Paris: graduate study, 1927–30 and Comp. Lit., 1931; Columbia University: graduate study, 1927–28.

Experience

Barnard College, New York, NY: instructor in English, 1929–38; Brooklyn College (now Brooklyn College of the City University of New York), Brooklyn, NY: assistant professor of English, 1938–48; New York University, NY: professor of English education, 1948–72; Consultant on English curriculum to New York and Connecticut State Departments of Education; College Entrance Examination Board: Educational Testing Service; U.S. Office of Education and Cooperative Research Agency; Member of Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service of Federal Communications Commission, 1943–44; Bureau of Overseas Intelligence, Office of War Information, associate chief of Western European Section, 1944; chief of Central Reports Section, 1944–45. After retiring from NYU in 1972, visiting professor at Rutgers University and University of Miami; Faculty Institutes Member at Northwestern University, Michigan State University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Alabama, University of Alberta, Auburn University, and University of Massachusetts.

Awards

Franco-American Exchange fellow, 1925–26; Guggenheim fellow, 1942–43; U.S. Office of Education grants, 1963, 1971; California State Department of Education Committee on the English Program choice as one of Ten Indispensable Books on Literature, 1967, for Literature as Exploration; NCTE’s Distinguished Lecturer, 1970; NYU’s Great Teacher Award, 1972; NCTE’s Distinguished Service award, 1973; New Jersey Association of Teachers of English nonfiction award, 1972; David Russell Award for Distinguished Research, 1980; James R. Squire Award for Extraordinary Contributions to Teaching and Learning in the English Language Arts, 2002; Elected to International Reading Association Hall of Fame, 1992; John Dewey Society Lifetime Achievement Award, 2001.