LEON, PHILIP W.
From Knob Knowledge
Professor Emeritus. Earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in English from Wake Forest University, and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. Assistant Professor of English, 1975-1980; Associate Professor, 1980-1987, and Professor, 1990-2007, at The Citadel. Also taught at Winston-Salem State University, served as a graduate assistant at Vanderbilt University, and served as a senior advisor to the Superintendent at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Author of Walt Whitman and Sir William Osler: A Poet and His Physician, Mark Twain and West Point, Bullies and Cowards: The West Point Hazing Scandal, 1898-1901, Nanny Wood: From Washington Belle to Portland's Grande Dame, Sir William Osler: Medical Humanist, and dozens of articles and essays. Member of the Board of Directors for the American Osler Society. Appointed to the Faculty, Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine, the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London, 2004. Past President of the Waring Library Society. (EC)
See also Philip W. Leon.
