Jib fowles biography of martin

Jib Fowles, 79, professor emeritus of media studies at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, died on March 7th, 2020.  Born Robert Briggs Fowles in 1940, he was given the family nickname “Jib” as an infant, and used that name all his life, both personally and professionally.

The son of Lloyd Wright Fowles and Jane Briggs Fowles, Jib grew up on the campus of the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut, where his father was the head of this preparatory school’s history department.  Jib often mentioned what a rich, instructive setting Loomis was for a young person.  Following his graduation from Loomis, he attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, receiving his B.A.

in 1963.

After a Fulbright fellowship year in India, Jib lived in New York City, where he earned his M.A. from Teachers College (Columbia University) and his Ph.D. at New York University.  He taught at New York University from 1967 to 1974.

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