Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Charles William Theodore Hagelman, 1991Biographical NoteCharles W. T. Hagelman was born in Houston, Texas in 1920. After receiving his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas in 1942, he joined the Army and served until 1946. He received a master's degree from Columbia University and a doctorate from the University of Texas. He taught English at Muehlenburg College, the University of Houston, Lamar Tech, and the Toledo University. He became a Professor of English at Northern Illinois University in 1968, and served as Chairman of the Department of English from 1974 to his retirement in 1986. He was a scholar of 19th century prose and romantic poetry, with a focus on the works of Shelley, Keats and Byron. He edited "A Vindication of the Rights of Women," by Mary Wollstonecraft and at the time of his death, he was compiling a concordance to a biography of Lord Byron to accompany his earlier concordance to Byron's "Don Juan"
Scope and ContentsIn this interview, Charles Hagelman was interviewed by his grandson Ted Ollier about his experiences in World War II. These include his early pacifist stance against war, his enrollment in the US Army after Pearl Harbor, his training in the Signal Corps, his assignment to Kunming, China, and his postwar journey to New York City in order to attend Columbia University
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