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Stub article: 'Emily Stipes Watts'
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Emily Stipes Watts (born 16 March 1936) is an American, retired English language educator and writer. In parallel with her academic career, she wrote Ernest Hemingway and the Arts (1971), The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945 (1978) and The Businessman in American Literature (1982).

Early life
Emily Stipes was born on March 16, 1936 in Urbana, Illinois, United States, the daughter of Royal Arthur Stipes and Virginia Louise Schenck.

She was a student at Smith College until 1956 and then at University of Illinois, where she obtained: a Bachelor of Arts (1958), a Master of Arts (Woodrow Wilson National fellow, 1959), and a PhD for her thesis on Jonathan Edwards and the Cambridge Platonists (1963). She married Robert Allan Watts on 31 August 1958.

Career
Stipes Watts was appointed instructor in the English language department at the University of Illinois at Urbana (1963-1967), and then assistant professor (1967-1973). In 1971, she published Ernest Hemingway and the Arts.

She was granted a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation fellowship in 1973-1974 and appointed associate professor (1973-1977), professor and director of graduate studies at the English department (1977—2005), and professor emerita since 2005. In 1978, she published The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945.

Stipes Watts was appointed chairman of the Board of directors of the University of Illinois Athletic Association (1981-1983). In 1982, she published The Businessman in American Literature.

She has been a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Illinois Board of Higher Education since 1984, and became its vice chairman (1986-1987), then chairman (1987-1988).

Stipes Watts is also a member of the American Institute of Archaeology, the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, the Authors Guild, the Illinois History Society, The Philadelphia Society, Phi Beta Kappa, and Phi Kappa Phi.

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 * I have done as much as I can on this draft stub, and have now sought advice from Rosiestep, here. Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 19:56, 16 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Created the article today. Patrick. ツ Pdebee.(talk)(guestbook) 10:12, 10 July 2016 (UTC)