James N. Loehlin was an American literary historian and writer from

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who served as the Shakespeare at Winedale Regents Professor of English and director of the Shakespeare at Winedale program at

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. He was a

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, and earned joint Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities at

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. He taught in the Drama Department at

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. He was the son of the Psychology Professor and Behavior Geneticist

John Loehlin John Clinton Loehlin (January 13, 1926 – August 9, 2020) was an American behavior geneticist, computer scientist, and psychologist. Loehlin served as president of the Behavior Genetics Association and of the Society of Multivariate Experimen ...

Awards

*Harry Ransom Teaching Award *Chad Oliver Teaching Award in Plan II *President's Associates Teaching Award

Works

*The Cambridge Introduction to Chekhov (Cambridge Introductions to Literature) *Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2 (The Shakespeare Handbooks) *Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard (Plays in Production)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Loehlin, James Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford American literary historians American male non-fiction writers Dartmouth College faculty Stanford University alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Writers from Austin, Texas Year of birth missing (living people) Historians from Texas