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- The Boston Globe
April 22, 1996
Alvan Sherman Ryan, of Dummerston, Vt., a retired professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, died of an aneurysm Saturday morning at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital. He was 83. Mr. Ryan was born and raised in Needham. He graduated from Needham High School in 1929 and from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1934. He received his master's degree from Harvard and a Ph.D in English literature from the University of Iowa in 1940
From 1935 to 1937, he was an educational adviser with the Civilian Conservation Corps. He taught English at the University of Notre Dame from 1943 to 1946 and also from 1951 to 1965. He served as acting chairman of the English department at Notre Dame from 1962 to 1965. Mr. Ryan was associate professor of English at UMass-Devens from 1946 to 1949 and a visiting lecturer at Wellesley College in 1949. He taught in the division of Humanities at Marlboro College from 1949 to 1951. In 1965, Mr. Ryan left Notre Dame to help form UMass-Boston, where he was chairman of the Division of Humanities and professor of English until his retirement in 1978.
Mr. Ryan was the president of the Indiana College English Association while at Notre Dame. He was a faculty fellow for the advancement of Education, visiting fellow at Princeton University, Senior Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of the Saarland in Germany, and the chairman of the Modern Language Association national committee of doctoral studies of English and preparation for teaching. He also was the author of The Brownson Reader and numerous articles. His poems were published in many university publications. Mr. Ryan also was active in sports. He played football, hockey, and was a pole vaulter in college.
He leaves his wife, Pauline (Hillburg); a daughter, Christina of Northampton; a son, David of Dummerston, and two grandchildren.
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