Glazier, Lyle (Personal Name)

His Great day coming, 1987: t.p. (Lyle Glazier) jkt. (prof. of lit. and has held Fulbright assignments for teaching black lit. in the Third World countries)

New Delhi MARC file, 10/16/87 (hdg.: Glazier, Lyle)

Middlebury Coll. Libraries website, viewed Aug. 11, 2017 (Lyle E. Glazier (1911-2004) was born in Leverett, Mass., to Harry Lee and Mertie Abby (Briggs) Glazier. Glazier attended Middlebury College as a member of the class of 1933. He received a Master of Arts degree from the Bread Loaf School of English in 1937, and a doctorate from Harvard Univ. in 1950. Glazier served as Principal of the Northfield Massachusetts Center Graded School from 1934-1935, Housemaster of the Mount Hermon School for Boys in Gill, Mass., from 1935-1937, English instructor at Bates College from 1937-1942, and English instructor at Tufts College from 1942-1944. Glazier served as assistant in Shakespeare at Harvard Univ. from 1944-1945, teaching fellow at Harvard and Radcliffe College from 1945-1952, assistant professor of English at the Univ. of Buffalo from 1947-1952, and associate professor and chairman of American Studies at the Univ. of Buffalo from 1952-1963. Glazier was professor of English and American studies at SUNY Buffalo from 1965-1972, Fulbright chair of American Studies at the Univ. of Istanbul from 1961-1963, Fulbright Lecturer at Hacettepe Univ. in Ankara, Turkey from 1968-1969, visiting professor from 1970-1971, and lecturer at Univ. of Madras in India from 1970-1971. He acted as a consultant of thematic studies for the City Univ. of New York from 1973-1975, visiting professor at Sana'a Univ. in North Yemen in 1980, and volunteer adjunct professor in African American literature at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, Vt. from 1984-1985. Glazier also acted as a United States Information Service volunteer expert in American Literature in India in 1971, and volunteer professor at Miles College in Birmingham in 1967. Glazier was featured in the Marquis' "Who's Who in the World," and was a member of the Academy of American Poets, the Vermont Council on the Arts, the Bennington Area Arts Council, the Gallery NOBIAS, the Poets and Writers Modern Language Association, the Poetry and Rare Books Collection of SUNY, the Friends of the Bennington Free Library, and the Friends of the Middlebury College Library. His written works include his autobiographical Wicked...and Spotless as the Lamb, Searching for Amy, Azubah Nye, Prefatory Lyrics, Great Day Coming, Stills from a Motion Picture, and others. Glazier married Middlebury College classmate Amy L. Niles (1911-1987) in 1939. They had three children: Laura, Susan, and Alis. Amy died in 1987 following a long illness. Glazier writes a great deal about his sexual/romantic relationships with Amy and others, primarily in his correspondence. Glazier was an openly gay man (particularly in the years following Amy's death), and much of his writing concerns AIDS and the gay community in the 1980s as well as his reflections on his own sexuality. In the 1950s, prior to his tenure in Turkey, Glazier was caught with a man in a public restroom, after which he underwent electroshock therapy and was forced to leave his teaching position in Buffalo. While in Turkey, Glazier met author James Baldwin, an event which he would write about at some length. Glazier died on Oct. 21, 2004 in North Bennington, Vt., at the age of 93)

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