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• 1 media/image55.jpg 2021-08-26T11:56:30-07:00 1949 - C. Hugh Holman (1914-1981) Joins the Department of English 3 A newly minted UNC Ph.D. in American literature, Holman became an assistant professor of English in 1949, a Kenan professor in 1959, and department chair from 1957 to 1962. He published research on William Gilmore Simms, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, and Ellen Glasgow, as well as six detective novels. He was the founding co-editor (with Louis D. Rubin) of the Southern Literary Journal. plain 2021-09-02T07:42:51-07:00 01/01/1949 A graduate of Presbyterian College and a newly minted UNC Ph.D. in American literature, Holman became an assistant professor of English in 1949.  He was awarded a Kenan Professorship in 1959 and chaired the Department of English from 1957 to 1962. He published research on William Gilmore Simms, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, and Ellen Glasgow, as well as six detective novels. He was the founding co-editor (with Louis D. Rubin) of the Southern Literary Journal. 
  
  Holman served in several administrative roles at UNC. He was Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1954), Acting Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences (1955 to 1957), Dean of the Graduate School (1963 to 1966), Provost (1966 to 1968), and Special Assistant to the Chancellor Ferebee Taylor (1972 to 1978). In 1976 Holman became a member of the board of trustees and vice-president of the National Humanities Center in the Research Triangle Park.
  
  
  
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  “C. Hugh Holman Papers, 1930s-1980s” [finding aid]. Collection no. 04537, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04537/.
  
  Leary, Lewis. “Holman, Clarence Hugh.” Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, edited by William S. Powell. U of North Carolina P, 1988. Rpt. in NCPedia,  https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/holman-clarence-hugh.