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 Joel Dorius's Papers & Memoirs
Joel Dorius, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, graduated from the University of Utah in 1940. During World War II, he taught elementary math to workers at MIT’s Radiation Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. at Harvard University, where he studied with renowned critic and teacher of literature and language, I.A. Richards. He assisted Richards for three years in Harvard’s newly-formed curriculum in the General Education program. He then taught at Yale from 1949-58 and at Smith College as an associate professor from 1958-60. In 1960, he was caught in a legal scandal that forced him to leave his school and his country. After being fired from Smith College, he taught for two years at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Finally acquitted in 1964, he returned to the States, where he taught at San Francisco State University until 1984. Before and after his retirement, he spent his free time traveling in Italy, writing, and studying his favorite hobbies—Italian art, architecture, and film. Since 1964, he has lived in San Francisco on Russian Hill. In 2003, Smith College finally acknowledged its mistake in having fired him 43 years before and featured him in a well-publicized conference on civil liberties at the college called Homeland Insecurity. Dorius has edited Henry V in the Yale Shakespeare series (Yale, 1955), Henry IV, Part I (Prentice-Hall, 1970), three anthologies of essays on Shakespeare, and a fourth on American and English literature. He has also written numerous articles and essays on Shakespeare, including “A Little More than a Little” (Shakespeare Quarterly, Winter, 1960), “Prudence and Excess in Richard II and the Histories” (Discussions of Shakespeare’s Histories, Heath, 1964), “Tragedy” (Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton, 1965), the “Introduction” to Henry IV, Part I (Prentice-Hall, 1970), and “Antony and Cleopatra” (How to Read Shakespearean Tragedy, Harper and Row, 1978; also published in Festschrift für Ludwig Borinski, Germany, 1978).
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