 | Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer Subjects: Pound Louise 1872–1958; Women scholars -- Nebraska -- Biography; Scholars -- Nebraska -- Biography; Athletes -- Nebraska -- Biography; Feminists -- United States -- Biography; Womens rights -- United States -- History; Folklorists -- United States -- B; Louise Pound (1872OCo1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, renowned athlete, accomplished musician, and devoted womenOCOs sports advocate. She is perhaps best remembered for her groundbreaking work in the field of linguistics and folklore and for her role as the first woman president of the Modern Language Association. A member of a distinguished Nebraska family that included her brother, the prominent legal scholar Roscoe Pound, Louise completed her undergraduate education at the University of Nebraska. When American universities wouldnOCOt admit her for graduate study, she went on to obtain a PhD in Heidelberg, Germany. She returned to the University of NebraskaOCoLincoln to teach in the English department for the next forty-five years. Robert Cochran is a professor of English and director of the Center for Arkansas and Regional Studies at the University of Arkansas. He has written many books, including A Photographer of Note: Arkansas Artist Geleve Grice and Singing in Zion: Music and Song in the Life of an Arkansas Family . |
