Year Honored: 2001
Birth: 1910 -
Born in: Philadelphia
Biography
Anna Janney De Armond graduated from Swarthmore College in 1932, received a master’s from Columbia University in 1934, and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1947. She began teaching in the English Department in 1935, and in 1968 she was the first woman to be promoted to tenured professor. De Armond taught courses in English, American, and Australian Literature. She also developed course focusing on women’s fiction literature, becoming one of the first to teach a women’s studies course. De Armond officially retired from the University in 1975 but continued to teach classes for another two decades.
In addition to the University of Delaware, De Armond taught as a Fulbright Professor at the University of Munich (1956-1957); as a visiting lecturer at Qingdao Ocean University in China; visiting lecturer in New South Whales, Australia at the University of New England; and helped to create the American Studies Program at the University of Riel in Germany.
Outside of teaching in the classroom, De Armond wrote ‘Andrew Bradford, Colonial Journalist,’ served on the curriculum committee for the Christiana School District, was a speaker for the Delaware Humanities Forum, and taught at the University of Delaware’s Academy of Lifelong Learning.
De Armond has been honored by the American Association of University Women; Governor Thomas R. Carper; and has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Delaware in 1954 and 1972; was the first faculty member to receive the University of Delaware Medal of Distinction (1995); Delaware Humanities Forum ‘Joseph P. Del Tufo Award’ for distinguished service to the humanities (2000); an honorary Doctorate of Human Letters from the University of Delaware; and has been listed in the ‘Directory of American Scholars’; the ‘Who’s Who of American Women’; ‘The Dictionary of International Biography’; and ‘Delaware Women Remembered.’
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Sources and Additional Readings
Anna Janney de Armond Obituary (2008) The Philadelphia Inquirer. Legacy.com. (n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2022, from https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/anna-de-armond-obituary?pid=106724232
Anna Janney de Armond. prabook.com. (n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2022, from https://prabook.com/web/anna_janney_de.armond/272552
In Memoriam Anna Janney DeArmond. In memoriam Anna Janney DeArmond. (n.d.). Retrieved January 13, 2022, from https://www1.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/apr/dearmond040408.html
Richards, R. H. (1976, May 9). DeArmond, Anna Janney. UDSpace Home. Retrieved January 13, 2022, from https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/20061
