Stuart Malcolm Tave (born April 10, 1923) is an American literary scholar. Tave graduated from

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, earned a master's degree at

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, and completed a D. Phil at the

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. Tave taught at the

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, where he served as chair of the English department, dean of the Division of the Humanities, and William Rainey Harper Professor. He received a Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the institution in 1958, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1959. Upon his retirement in 1993, Tave was granted emeritus status. In 2000, the University of Chicago honored him as that year's Norman Maclean Award winner.

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