KU News Release

KU mourns longtime English professor Bernard ‘Bud’ Hirsch

LAWRENCE — University of Kansas Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Professor Jim Hartman issued the following statements of condolence following the death Sunday of Bernard “Bud” Hirsch, associate professor of English. Hirsch, 61, taught at KU for more than 30 years and recently received a W.T. Kemper Fellowship for excellence in teaching and advising.

Chancellor Hemenway:
“I’ve known Bud personally and have great respect for him and all that he has given to his students and to the University of Kansas. He was an award-winning teacher who really cared about his students and the intellectual life of the university. He will be greatly missed.”

Jim Hartman, professor of English
“Bud’s 30 year career here was filled with inspiring, award-winning teaching of romantic and Native American literature, locally and nationally recognized advising in his longtime service as coordinator of undergraduate studies, and high quality scholarly contributions to Native and Western American literary studies. Bud’s passion, integrity, humor and strong sense of human value will echo through the many lives he touched.”

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