English Department
Professor Emeritus Harry Marten died October 10, 2024 at age 80.
Marten joined Union in 1976; he retired at the end of the 2011-12 academic year.
He came to Union from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., where he was an assistant professor. He earned doctorate and master’s degrees at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Calif., and a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Binghamton.
His teaching interests included modern British and American literature. He has published in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, The Gettysburg Review, The Ohio Review, New England Review, ELH, The Centennial Review, Contemporary Literature and others.
He has written books on poets Conrad Aiken and Denise Levertov, and he has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Huntington Library.
At Union, Marten was regarded as a generous friend and colleague who took special pleasure in helping his junior colleagues develop as writers, instructors and participants in the college community, said Jordan Smith.
