Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Collie, Michael John
Parallel form(s) of name
- Michael Collie; M. J. Collie; Michael J. Collie
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Description area
Dates of existence
1929-2011
History
Michael John Collie was born August 8, 1929 in Eastbourne, England. He was a member of the British Army Intelligence, 1947-1949. He received his Master of Arts degree from Cambridge University in 1956. He was an assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Manitoba (1957-1959), a lecturer at the University of Exeter in 1961, and an Associate Professor at Mount Allison University in 1962. In 1965 he began his career as a professor of English at York University. A post he held until his retirement in 1990. While at York was also the Dean of Graduate Studies. Collie was a fellow in the Royal Society of Canad, Royal Geography Society and a member of International Association Universities Professors English, Modern Humanities Research Association, Society History of Science, Geological Society of America, Geological Society London, Society Authors and the Bibliographical Society of America.
Michael Collie died July 21, 2011.