Elliott Van Kirk Dobbie (May 9, 1907 – March 23, 1970) was an American scholar of Anglo-Saxon literature who taught English at Columbia University.
[1] Dobbie studied at Columbia University, being awarded a bachelor's in 1927 and a first class master's in American Literature in 1929.
The first three volumes were mainly edited by Krapp (The Junius Manuscript in 1931, and in 1932 The Vercelli Book and The Paris Psalter and Meters of Boethius), but he soon passed away.
[3]: 6 Dobbie also served a long history with the journal American Speech, first working as assistant editor from 1939 until 1940.
[1] In 1937, Dobbie married Mary Lorraine Kout, an associate in Columbia's English department.