Kenneth Roemer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kenneth Roemer

American academic

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1945

Place of Birth: East Rockaway, New York, United States

Profession: academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Kenneth Morrison Roemer (born 6 June 1945, in East Rockaway, Long Island), a Piper Professor of 2011, Distinguished Scholar Professor, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington.
He received his B.A.
from Harvard and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author or editor of four books on utopian literature, including The Obsolete Necessity (1976), and three books on American Indian literatures, including the co-edited Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).
His collection of personal essays about Japan, Michibata de Dietta Nippon (2002) (A Sidewalker’s Japan), was a finalist for the Koizumi Yakumo Cultural Prize.
He initiated and continues to oversee the development of a digital archive of tables of contents of American literature anthologies Covers, Titles, and Tables: The Formations of American Literary Canons (www.uta.edu/english/roemer/ctt).