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Robert Edward Spoo[1] (born 1957) is a professor and scholar of law and of English, an academic of the law and literature movement, and a Guggenheim Fellowship awardee.[2] From 1988 to 2023, he taught at the University of Tulsa, but joined Princeton University as an endowed professor in 2024.

Biography

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Born in 1957, Spoo was educated at Lawrence University, and received a BA degree in English in 1979. This was followed by MA (1984) and PhD (1986) degrees in English from Princeton University.[2] Spoo worked as a lecturer at Princeton from 1984 until he joined the University of Tulsa in 1988. He received his JD from Yale Law School in 2000. He held positions as an attorney at various firms between 2000 and 2008, often simultaneously with his academic appointments. From 2001 to 2002, he was a law clerk of Sonia Sotomayor.[3]

In 2012, Spoo was promoted to Chapman Distinguished Professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law. While at Tulsa, he also served as editor of the James Joyce Quarterly.[4] He was a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.[5][6] In 2020, the University of Tulsa named Spoo an "outstanding researcher."[7]

Effective on January 1, 2024, Spoo joined the faculty of Princeton University as the endowed Leonard L. Milberg '53 Professor in Irish Letters.[8][9]

Spoo is editor of the Oxford University Press Law and Literature series[10] and author of James Joyce and the Language of History,[11] Without Copyrights,[12] and Modernism and the Law.[13][14] On top of his scholarship on James Joyce, he has also published Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946, a book about Ezra Pound.[15]

References

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  1. ^ "Robert Edward Spoo". Research With Princeton. Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-07-14.
  2. ^ a b "Robert Spoo". Department of English. Princeton University. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  3. ^ "Robert Spoo" (Curriculum vitae). Retrieved 2024-07-06 – via Bepress.
  4. ^ "Robert Spoo". Bloomsbury Publishing. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  5. ^ "Robert Spoo '00 Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow". Yale Law School. 2016-04-06. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  6. ^ Fisher, Rich (2016-04-13). "A Chat with TU Law Professor Robert Spoo, a Newly Named 2016 Guggenheim Fellow". Public Radio Tulsa. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  7. ^ "Spoo honored with Outstanding Researcher Award". The University of Tulsa. 2020-06-02. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  8. ^ "Board approves 24 faculty appointments". Office of Communications. Princeton University. Sep 27, 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  9. ^ "Faculty members named to endowed professorships". Office of the Dean of the Faculty. Princeton University. Sep 27, 2023. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  10. ^ "Law and Literature". Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
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  14. ^ "Robert Spoo". Public Books. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
  15. ^ Spoo, Robert; Pound, Omar (1999). Ezra and Dorothy Pound: Letters in Captivity, 1945–1946. Oxford University Press.
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