Richard Dankleff, circa 1980

Title: Richard Dankleff, circa 1980
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Literature--Study and teaching Portraits Dankleff, Richard
Description: Richard Elden Dankleff attended the University of Nebraska before serving in World War II. After the war, he completed a BS at Columbia University in 1949. Dankleff earned an MA from the University of Nebraska in 1954 and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959. Dankleff was a faculty member in the Oregon State University English Department from 1963 until his retirement in 1987. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he wrote poetry and led a poetry workshop in the Corvallis community. He continued to mentor other writers of poetry after his retirement. Dankleff's poetry was published as individual pieces as well as in three collections. Popcorn Girl (1979) and Westerns (1984) were published by the Oregon State University Press; Off Watch was published by Oregon Sunrise Press in 2001. He died in Corvallis in 2010.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs
Date: 1975/1985
Identifier: mss-dankleff
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: Richard Dankleff Sound Recording, 2010 (MSS Dankleff)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University
Modified: 2015-02-11
Submission Date: 2012-10-12