James Edward ROBINSON

10 FEB 1928 - 10 AUG 1999

• BIRTH: 10 FEB 1928, Kansas City, Clay, MO
• DEATH: 10 AUG 1999, South Bend,St Joseph, IN

• MARRIAGE: 24 JUN 1950, St Joseph County, IN

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[N22097] August 11,1999 - Newswire Release
by Michael O. Garvey
August 10, 1999

James E. Robinson, professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, died yesterday (Aug. 10) at St. Joseph’s Medical Center in South Bend after a brief illness. He was 71 years old.p.

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Prof. James Edward Robinson

BIRTH 10 Feb 1928
Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri, USA

DEATH 10 Aug 1999 (aged 71)
South Bend, St. Joseph County, IN

BURIAL
Cedar Grove Cemetery
Notre Dame, St. Joseph County, Indiana, USA
PLOT Section I, row 9, lot 18
MEMORIAL ID 136055183

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Feb. 10, 1928 - Aug. 10, 1999
James E. Robinson , professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, died yesterday, Aug. 10, at Saint Joseph's Regional Medical Center in South Bend, Ind., after a brief illness. He was 71 years old. A member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1957, Robinson was born Feb. 10, 1928, in Kansas City, Mo. He was graduated from Rockhurst College there in 1947 and received a master's degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb., in 1949. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Illinois in 1959. Robinson chaired the Notre Dame English department from 1968-72 and served as resident director of the University's London program during the spring semester of 1984. He also served his department as director of undergraduate studies in 1988 and 1991 and associate chair from 1987-92. A specialist in Renaissance literature, Robinson taught popular undergraduate and graduate courses in Shakespeare, Elizabethan-Stuart poetry, the plays of Samuel Beckett, and the Theatre of the Absurd. In addition to his book, "The Scope of Rhetoric: A handbook for Composition and Literature," Robinson wrote numerous articles and reviews for scholarly publications in this country, Canada, England and Ireland. He also wrote several poems. Last year he gave lectures on Shakespeare and Beckett to audiences in Strasbourg, France, and Brisbane, Australia. He was at work on a book about space and time representation in Shakespeare's later plays. As notable for his kind and congenial manner as for his lively imagination and powerful intellect, Robinson enjoyed not only the respect but also the affection of his students and colleagues during his 42 years on the Notre Dame faculty. He could be as articulate, and passionate, about the fortunes of the Kansas City Royals as about the metaphors of decomposition in Beckett's drama. Robinson married Margaret Ann Cherek on June 24, 1950. She survives along with their children, James E. Robinson of South Bend, Katherine A. Coleman of South Bend, Stephen J. Robinson of Jonesboro, Ind., and Ann R. Pollard of Bowling Green, Ky.; and six grandchildren. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. today in the McGann Funeral Home, 2313 East Edison. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. on Friday in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart. Burial will follow at Cedar Grove Cemetery. The Robinson family has asked that memorial donations be made to the Autism Society, or to the American Heart Association.