Retired Trustees' Professors
Robert Janusko
Trustees' Professor and Emeritus Professor of English
Robert Janusko
Trustees' Professor and Emeritus Professor of English
Janusko,
a member of the English Department faculty since 1967, is regarded
as one of the world's leading authorities on the work of Irish author
James Joyce.
A summa cum laude graduate of Kent State University in 1964, Janusko
earned his master of arts degree in 1966 and a Ph.D. in 1967, both
from Kent State. He has conducted post-doctoral work at the University
of Iowa and Columbia University.
Janusko was named assistant professor of English in 1967, associate
professor of English in 1969 and full professor in 1974. During
his tenure at Ashland University, he has chaired numerous committees,
including the Joint Faculty-Trustee Committee on Institutional and
Personnel Problems, and has served as president of the Faculty Senate.
Janusko was awarded a senior faculty study leave in 1990 in which
he continued his exhaustive study of Joyce's manuscript drafts of
the epic AUlysses.@ He also received a summer study grant in 1994,
which was used to provide him additional study time following the
presentation of a paper at the International Workshop of the Zurich
James Joyce Foundation in Zurich, Switzerland.
His 1983 book, The Sources and Structures of James Joyce's "Oxen
of the Sun," is considered in many literary circles as the
earliest and most comprehensive piece on the Oxen episode in Ulysses.
In 1993, he was named the University's third Trustees' Professor,
an academic honor awarded by the Board of Trustees to a professor
who is recognized as an outstanding educator, researcher and campus
leader.