Roland N. Harman (? – April 1989) graduated from Georgetown University in 1933. After earning his Ph.D from Yale University in 1938, he taught in Georgetown's English Department from 1950 until his retirement in 1976. He was chairman of the department from 1950 to 1959 and was instrumental in developing the University's College Honors Program.
Before returning to Georgetown to teach, he served as Lt. Commander in the United States Navy during World War II and was a member of the Occupation Forces in Japan.
Harman was an avid book collector and accumulated a library of at least 3,300 volumes on various subjects, including detective fiction, cookery, nineteenth century British literature, and psychology. In 1990 his sister, Mrs. James S. Ruby, donated his collection to the Georgetown University Library.1
While a student at Georgetown he served as President of the Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry Society. In 1933 he was elected to the editorial staff of the society's magazine.2
