Dr. Eugene Current-Garcia was born in New Orleans, LA. on July 8, 1908 and died Janury 1, 1995. His education included: Tulane University, A.B., 1930, and M.A., 1932; and Harvard University, A.M., 1942, Ph.D., 1947. He was an English professor and taught at the University of Nebraska (1936-1939); Suffolk University, Boston (1939-1942); Louisiana State University (1944-1947); and Auburn University (1947-1993). Dr. Current-Garcia was also a literary scholar, had multiple publications, and earned several academic honors, including: Ford Foundation Fellow at Princeton University (1953-1954); Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Salonika, Greece (1956-1958); Hargis Professor of American Literature (1964); U.S. State Department Lecturer in South America and Cuba; Phi Beta Kappa, and was also elected the first Phi Kappa Phi American Scholar in 1974. He was also a member of the Southern Humanities Conference and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association during his tenure.