John Clubbe (academic)

John Louis Edwin Clubbe was an American academic. He was an emeritus professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Biography

Clubbe received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia University. He also attended the University of Paris in 1966. He taught at Duke University and the University of Kentucky from 1976 to 1999 and is an expert on English Romanticism, especially the works of Lord Byron. He was a longtime president of the International Association of Byron Societies and the Byron Society of America, where he was chair from 1974 through 1999.
Clubbe received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 as well as a National [Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship] into Thomas Carlyle.
He died on February 24, 2022, at age 84.