Robert S. Knapp, Ph.D.
Trustee
Education
B.A., English and Theater, University of Colorado Boulder
M.A., English, University of Denver
Ph.D., English, Cornell University
Background
Robert Knapp is the R.F. Arragon Professor of English and Humanities, Emeritus, at Reed College in Portland, OR. Born and raised on a small ranch in southern Colorado, he studied at the University of Colorado, the University of Denver, and Cornell University. Before coming to Reed College, he taught for eight years at Princeton University. At Reed, he taught courses in Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Spenser, and literary theory, and also worked for most of his career in Reed's interdisciplinary Humanities program. He has been a friend of the monastic community at Saint Martin's ever since his arrival in the Pacific Northwest, having been introduced to the Abbey by Br. Ronald Hurst, O.S.B.