Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Ellis Bowlt


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The result was keep. Nomination withdrawn. (non-admin closure) ☆ Bri (talk) 04:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)

John Ellis Bowlt

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Not holding a named professorship etc. as detailed at WP:NPROF. ☆ Bri (talk) 22:43, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
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 * Keep If you use the search tools above you get mixed results. A search in google scholar for "Bowlt John", "JE Bowlt" and "J Bowlt" yields thousands of items; he has published extensively in his field and has been cited widely. A google book search using the same parameters gives us many dozens of books and chapters (and his online CV at University of Southern California lists 51 books as of 2014), as well as showing he is widely cited as an expert in his field. One book (Čiurlionis: Painter and Composer: Collected Essays and Notes, 1906-1989, Stasys Goštautas, Vilnius: Vaga, 1994) describes him as such: "John Ellis Bowlt is one of the foremost scholars on Russian art and literature." (link). In addition to being a full professor at University of Southern California, he is also the director of the Institute of Modern Russian Culture (USC). From 2015-16 he was Slade Professor at University of Cambridge (link). His cv lists dozens of awards. He's also on the editorial board of  Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal TEXTS (link). He was a keynote speaker at The Congress 100th Anniversary of Russian Formalism (1913-2013) (link). Given his decades of publishing in books, chapters and peer-reviewed journals (numbering in the hundreds), being widely cited (thousands of instances), being regarded as a foremost expert in the field of Russian avant-garde art, and his Slade Professorship at Cambridge, Bowlt easily passes WP:NPROF.  freshacconci  (✉) 15:12, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Withdrawn due to Slade professorship at Cambridge, the nomination was incorrect on this point. ☆ Bri (talk) 04:48, 18 January 2018 (UTC)


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