James R. (James Root) Hulbert

Born in 1884 and identified in library records as James Root Hulbert, he was an American scholar whose work centered on English language and literature. His name appears on studies of Geoffrey Chaucer as well as teaching texts on Old English, including The Elements of Old English and An Anglo-Saxon Reader.

He is especially associated with Chaucer's Official Life, first published in 1912, a study that examined Chaucer's career and place in the English court. Hulbert also served as co-editor, with Sir William A. Craigie, of A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles, the major four-volume dictionary project published by the University of Chicago from 1936 to 1944.

The surviving online record is fairly sparse, but the publications linked to his name show a scholar interested in how English developed across centuries, from Anglo-Saxon texts to American usage. He died in 1969.