It is with profound sadness that we learned of the passing of Robert James Merrett, honorary member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Having joined the English Department at The University of Alberta in 1969 where he was promoted to full professor in 1981, Robert James Merrett became an emeritus in 2012. A founding member of CSECS, he served its executive in several capacities: Secretary-Treasurer 1982-82; Vice-President 1979-80 and 1982-83; President 1991-94. As Managing Editor of Man and Nature /L'homme et la nature / Lumen from 1986 to 1995, he created an investment fund to strengthen the society's futurity. He was for six years an Associate Dean of Arts (1990-93 and 1997-99), becoming Vice-President (Development) for the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Ottawa from 2001 to 2006. He has published widely on eighteenth-century English and French Literature.
We express our most sincere condolences to his family, colleagues and friends.
