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• 1 media/Picture4.png 2021-08-03T10:07:48-07:00 1885 - Thomas Hume (1836-1912) Becomes Professor of English Language and Literature 4 Thomas Hume became the first professor of English language and literature in the University's new College of Literature, a position he held until his retirement in 1907. During his time at the University, he modernized the department in a variety of ways. plain 2021-09-01T07:52:19-07:00 01/01/1885 Thomas Hume became the first professor of English language and literature in the University's new College of Literature, a position he held until his retirement in 1907. During his time at the University, he organized the University’s Shakespeare Club and often gave lectures on Shakespeare, Tennyson, and the Bible throughout North Carolina and Virginia. According to MacMillan, “with Hume’s arrival the modern English Department begins” (MacMillan 12). 
  
  
  
  
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  MacMillan, Dougald.  English at Chapel Hill: 1795-1969.  Department of English, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1970. 12-13.  HathiTrust Digital Library,  https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001260393&view=1up&seq=7.