Nomination of Robert Hollander To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert Hollander to be a member of the National Council on the Humanities, National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, for a term expiring January 26, 1992. He would succeed Roland Paul Dille.

Since 1962 Dr. Hollander has been affiliated with Princeton University where he began as a lecturer and then became an associate professor in European literature, department of Romance languages in 1967. He was promoted to full professor in European literature in 1974, and since 1975 he has held the joint appointment of professor in comparative literature and Romance languages and literatures.

Dr. Hollander graduated from Princeton University (A.B., 1955) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1962). He is married, has two children, and resides in Hopewell, NJ. He was born July 31, 1933, in New York City.