Thomas Vargish (born February 13, 1939) is an American scholar of literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College.

Biography

Vargish was born on February 13, 1939, in Fair Haven, Vermont. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1960. That year, he won a

Rhodes Scholarship The Rhodes Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. Established in 1902, it is the oldest graduate scholarship in the world. It is considered among the world' ...

to study at

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, and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vargish's brother, Stephan Vargish, was also a Rhodes Scholar. He taught at Dartmouth College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, University of Gothenburg, and the United States Air Force Academy. Vargish earned a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 1972 to work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction. He has also authored books on relativity and cubism with Dartmouth physicist Delo Mook, father of political strategist Robby Mook.

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