Robert Durene Jacobs Jr. (died October 28, 1998) was an American academic who specialised in the literature of the Southern United States.
From August 1942, he took part in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II, engaging in battles at Lunga Point and the Matanikau River.
[1] In 1953, Jacobs began working at the University of Kentucky as an instructor in English, speech and dramatic arts.
[7] He then joined Georgia State University in the 1970s, retiring as Callaway Chair professor of American literature in the 1980s.
[1] In the 1950s, Jacobs co-edited a collections of essays with Louis D. Rubin Jr. titled Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South.