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====== James J. Goodwin Professor of English   ======

The James J. Goodwin Professor of English professorship was established in 1917 following the death of [[trustees|Trustee]] James J. Goodwin in 1915. Goodwin and his wife gifted money to the school, including a $50,000 endowment that he wished to be gifted to a "professorship preferably of Literature."

A list of faculty who have been recorded as holding the position and receiving subsequent funding include: 

**Odell Shepard**: 1919-1944 (last mentioned)

**Morse S. Allen**: 1947-1961

**Frederick L. Gwynn**: 1962-1966

**J. Bard McNulty**: 1966-1984 

**Paul Smith**: ca. 1984-1992

**Milla C. Riggio**: ca. 2000-2017


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===== Sources =====
[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/ivy/144/|The Trinity Ivy]], 2014, p. 84. 

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/2/|Trinity College in the Twentieth Century]] (2000) by Peter and Anne Knapp, p. 398. 

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/338/|The Trinity Reporter]], Summer 1992, p. 3.

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/348/|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1983-1894 (Report of the President),  pp. 11-12.  

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/275/|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1965-1966,  p. 17.

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/248/|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1962-1963,  p. 11. 

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/242/|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1960-1961,  p. 10.

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/543/|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1946-1947,  p. 6. 

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/547/|Trinity College Bulletin]], 1943-1944, p. 9. 

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/tripod/2097/|The Trinity Tripod]], 02/25/1919.

[[https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/bulletin/63/|Trinity College Bulletin]], July 1917, p. 39.

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