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      Jake Kobler, Professor Emeritus of English, died Jan. 4. He was a faculty member in the Department of English from 1964 to 1997 and served as department co-chair. He taught composition, rhetoric and American literature, specializing in works by Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner and F. Scott Fitzgerald. His publications included articles in Modern Fiction Studies, Arizona Quarterly, Fitzgerald/Hemingway Annual and Studies in Short Fiction. He was active in the College English Association and the South Central Modern Language Association.Kobler earned bachelor’s degrees from Louisiana State University and a master’s degree from the University of Houston. He earned a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and previously taught there and at the University of Houston. He also had worked as a reporter for the Shreveport Times, Houston Chronicle and United Press and worked for the Department of Defense and Shell Oil. He was a U.S. Air Force veteran. Memorials may be made to the UNT English department.
    

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