Thomas Vargish
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Thomas Vargish (born February 13, 1939) was an American scholar of literature. He was a professor of English at Dartmouth College.[1]
Thomas Vargish | |
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| Born | February 1939 |
| Died | September 2023 (aged 84) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1972) |
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| Discipline | English literature |
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Biography
Vargish was born on February 13, 1939, in Granville, New York. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1960. That year, he won a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Merton College, Oxford,[2] and received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. Vargish's brother, Stephan Vargish, was also a Rhodes Scholar.[3][4] He taught at Dartmouth College, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,[5] University of Gothenburg, and the United States Air Force Academy.[6]
Vargish earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1972 to work on a book on the religious background of Victorian fiction.[7][8][9] He has also authored books on relativity and cubism with Dartmouth physicist Delo Mook, father of political strategist Robby Mook.[10][11][12]