{"id":1647,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1647"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"mersmann, james frederick, 1938-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"MERSMANN, JAMES FREDERICK, 1938-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University Professor.  Born&#8211;  Richmond, Kan., December 25, 1938.  Parents&#8211;   Fred and Regina (Lickteig) Mersmann.  Married&#8211;  Karolyn Decker, September 29, 1959.  Children&#8211;  Four.  Education&#8211;  B.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1972.  Employed as U.S. Marine Corps, 1956-1958; taught, Mt. St. Scholastica College, 1969-1971; Benedictine College, 1971; University of Alabama, Birmingham, 1973.  Member&#8211;  Modern Language Association of America, American Association of University Professors, South Atlantic Modern Language Association.  Honors&#8211;  Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1965-1966; National Endowment, Humanities Seminar, 1973. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 61 and from Contemporary Literature in            Birmingham. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Isis Poems.  Birmingham, Ala.;  Thunder City Press, 1977.  <\/p>\n<p>     Out of the Vietnam Vortex;  a Study of Poets and Poetry Against the War.  Lawrence;       University Press of Kansas, 1974. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: University Professor. Born&#8211; Richmond, Kan., December 25, 1938. Parents&#8211; Fred and Regina (Lickteig) Mersmann. Married&#8211; Karolyn Decker, September 29, 1959. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; B.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1965; M.A., 1967; Ph.D., University of Kansas, 1972. Employed as U.S. Marine Corps, 1956-1958; taught, Mt. St. Scholastica College, 1969-1971; Benedictine College, 1971; University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}