Albert guerard biography

He taught for a year at Amherst College before earning his doctorate from Stanford in 1938.
Albert Léon Guérard (1880–1959) was a prominent scholar of comparative literature.
Nationality: American.

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Albert Léon Guérard

Albert Léon Guérard (1880–1959) was a prominent scholar of comparative literature. Guérard taught at Stanford University for many years.^[1]

Life

Guérard was born on 3 November 1880 in Paris. For two years, Guérard was assistant professor of History at the Paris école normale supérieure. Afterwards, he studying at both the University of London and the Sorbonne – in 1906, he was agrégated at the latter.

The same year, he emigrated to the United States, where he taught the French language at Williams College. In 1907, newly wed to Wilhelmina Macartney, he moved to California. Here, Guérard taught French at Stanford University from 1907 to 1913. Until 1924, he taught at the International Rice Research Institute; his tenure was interrupted by his involvement in the First World War.

A prolific author, he published works on French and European civilization, world literature,^[2] and international languages, also holding the position of protector of the Occidental language's Occidental-Academie in 1936.^[3]

Books

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Albert Guerard, novelist, critic, and teacher

Publication Date: Wednesday Nov 22, 2000

Albert Guerard, 86, a longtime Stanford resident, died Nov. 9.

A professor emeritus of English who published both novels and criticism and taught some of today's brightest writers, died in the home his parents built on campus in 1926.

Thomas Moser, a colleague of Guerard, described him as "passionately interested in the world around him.

"He was crazy about Stanford and Stanford sports. Until the very end, Saturday afternoon was sacred. He would be watching Stanford football on television."

Other colleagues remember Guerard as a scholar with expansive interests in the field of literature and as a teacher devoted to his students.

After joining the Stanford faculty in 1961, he launched the university's first freshman seminar program, which ran for 13 years. He also worked to get funding for the Voice Project, a program he developed that brought professional writers to campus to teach freshman writers.

From 1965 to 1967, he directed what was then called the Freshman English program. Moser a

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Albert Joseph Guerard; Stanford Professor, Author

Albert Joseph Guerard, 86, a Stanford University English professor who wrote nine novels, six books of criticism and a memoir. He wrote his first novel, “The Past Must Alter,” when he was 20, and his last, “Gabrielle,” as he approached his 80s. His memoir, “The Touch of Time: Myth, Memory and the Self,” was published when he was was 66. Critics over the years praised Guerard’s sound, literate prose but often noted that his characterization was weak. A Times review of his 1950 novel “Journey Into Night” said Guerard’s “technical ability is great when it comes to the novel of ideas.” He joined the Stanford faculty in 1961 and soon launched the university’s first freshman seminar program, which ran for 13 years. Among Guerard’s students was the best-selling novelist John Updike. Guerard’s interest in the literary schools of modernism and postmodernism motivated him to develop Stanford’s current interdisciplinary doctoral program in modern thought and literature. Born in Houston, Guerard earned his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees at S