Encyclopedia of UNCG History
An online resource for exploring the history of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Department of English
Martha Elizabeth Winfield
Martha Elizabeth Winfield was a graduate of the State Normal and Industrial College (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) in 1906. After graduating, she became a member of the English Department, working from 1906 until her death in 1936. Through studies pursued while on leaves of absence, Winfield received her B.WS. and M.A. […]
Joseph Allen Bryant, Jr. (1919-1999)
Joseph Allen Bryant Jr. was born on November 26, 1919 in Glasgow, Kentucky. He was married with two children, Joseph Allen III and Garnett Woodruff. Bryant received his bachelors at West Kentucky Teachers College in 1940, his masters at Vanderbilt University in 1941, and his doctorate at Yale University in 1948. In 1942 he joined […]
Peter H. Taylor (1917-1994)
Peter H. Taylor was born on January 8, 1917 in Trenton, Tennessee. He attended Southwestern in Memphis for one year, Vanderbilt for one year, and Kenyon College for two years, finally receiving his bachelors degree in 1940. Taylor was drafted into the Army in the spring of 1941 as Sergeant; he was discharged from the […]
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965)
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was born in Nashville, Tennessee, to Owen and Anna Campbell Jarrell. He spent his early childhood years in California and in Nashville, and attended Hume-Fogg High School in Nashville as a teenager. In the fall of 1932, Jarrell enrolled at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, Jarrell wrote for and eventually became editor of the […]