Material associated with publications by James Bertram

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Identifier: berj

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Dates

Creation: ca.1945-1994

Access and use

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Biographical/Historical note

Note from in-house card index 'Academic qualifications and working relationship to VUW': 'MA (NZ: Auckland & Oxford) English: Senior lecturer, 1947-61; Associate Professor, 1962-71; Professor, 1971; Retired, 1975; Emeritus Professor, 1976.'

Further biographical information from 'TAPUHI' (the online catalogue of the Alexander Turnbull Library in the National Library of New Zealand, at http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/spydus/MSG/GLOBAL/index.html): 'Journalist, writer, relief worker, prisoner of war, editor. foreign correspondent for English newspapers in China 1938-1939; served with British Embassy in Chungking 1941; adviser to the NZ delegation to the Far Eastern Commission 1946.'

A former Rhodes Scholar (1932), James Bertram contributed to New Zealand literature as a student in Auckland in the 1930s ('Phoenix'), as a reviewer and commentator in the 1950s-70s, and as a foreign correspondent and participant observer in China in the late 1930s.

He lectured in English at Victoria University of Wellington from 1947 to 1975 and published research on Thomas Arnold the younger (brother of the poet Matthew). He did not teach New Zealand literature - his teaching specialities were the 15th century, and ca.1890-1940 (where he could and did speak with personal knowledge of some writers, having been at Oxford with them).

Bertram, James Munro

Missing Title

1910
: Born
August 1993
: Died

MA (NZ: Auckland & Oxford)

English: Senior lecturer, 1947-61; Associate Professor, 1962-71; Professor, 1971; Retired, 1975; Emeritus Professor, 1976.

A former Rhodes Scholar (1932), James Bertram contributed to New Zealand literature as a student in Auckland in the 1930s ('Phoenix'), as a reviewer and commentator in the 1950s-70s, and as a foreign correspondent cum participant observer in China in the late 1930s.

He lectured in English at VUW 1947-1975 and published research on Thomas Arnold the younger (brother of the poet Matthew). He did not teach NZ literature - his teaching specialities were C15th and ca.1890-1940 (where he could and did speak with personal knowledge of some writers, having been at Oxford).

Biographical information from 'TAPUHI' (the online catalogue of the Alexander Turnbull Library in the National Library of New Zealand, at http://tapuhi.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/spydus/MSG/GLOBAL/index.html): 'Journalist, writer, relief worker, prisoner of war, editor. foreign correspondent for English newspapers in China 1938-1939; served with British Embassy in Chungking 1941; adviser to the NZ delegation to the Far Eastern Commission 1946.'