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Robert James "Bob" Niemi ( April 17, 1955- September 17, 2022) from Fitchburg, Massachusetts) was an American literary scholar, literary critic and author. Since 1990 he is professor of English at Saint Michael's College in Colchester.

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Life

Robert Niemi was born in 1955 in Fitchburg as one of three sons of Alfred A. Niemi and Anita Mary (Cormier) Niemi. [1] [2]

Niemi attended Fitchburg High School until 1973. In 1977 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English at University of Massachusetts Amherst. In 1978 he received the MSLS at Columbia University. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst he graduated with a Master of Arts in English in 1988 and with his dissertation Music Out of an Abyss: A Critical Study of the Fiction of Weldon Kees he graduated with a Ph.D. in English in 1991. [3]

Since 1990 Niemi teaches on American Studies, American literature and cultural history, film studies, critical theory and popular culture studies at the Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont. In September 2012 the faculty awarded him the Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award. [4]

He has published several non-fiction books on literary, film and popular culture issues. Niemi has written books about Weldon Kees, Russell Banks, the Beat Generation, filmmaker Robert Altman as part of the Directors' Cuts series of Columbia University Press [5] and the genre of the War film with his genre overview 100 Great War Movies: The Real History Behind the Film. [6] He also published articles, book reviews and encyclopedic entries.

Niemi ist married to Constance "Connie" Dufour and lives in Essex Junction, Vermont. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Interview with Robert Niemi . In: authorvoices.com, access date 28 January 2021.
  2. Anita M. (Cormier) Niemi . In: Sentinel & Enterprise, 23 April 2015, access date 28 January 2021.
  3. Robert James Niemi . In: amherst.edu/library, access date 28 January 2021.
  4. Prof Robert Niemi receives 2012 Scholarship and Artistic Achievement Award at St Michael's College Academic Convocation . In: vermontbiz.com, 2 October 2012.
  5. Directors' Cuts . In: cup.columbia.edu, access date 28 January 2021.
  6. Edward Whatley: Book Review: 100 Great War Movies: The Real History Behind the Films . In: Reference & User Services Quarterly, Vol. 58, n. 2, p. 124-125, January 2019. ISSN 1094-9054.