Robert F. Roeming (1912-2004) was professor of French and Italian at Wisconsin State
College from 1941 to 1956, and thereafter at UWM from 1956 through 1980. He was the
first chair of the UWM Department of French and Italian (1956-1964) and an associate
dean in the College of Letters & Sciences (1957-1962), thereafter serving as
director of Language Labs (1964-1970), director of the English as a Second Language
Program (1967-1970), and founder and director of the Center for 20th Century Studies
(1969-1974). He also served on a number of key committees, such as the Ad Hoc
Committee on Hebrew Studies, the Regents-Faculty Conference Committee, and the UWM
Magazine Committee. Additionally, Roeming published Camus: A
Bibliography, an attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of scholarly
literature on Albert Camus, in 1968 and continued to update and edit the
bibliography throughout the remainder of his career at UWM.
Outside of UWM, Roeming was active as a member of the Wisconsin Board of Nursing and
as managing editor of the Modern Language Journal,
the official journal of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers
Association, from 1963 to 1970.
