Question: Leslie Casson was professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at a university founded in which year ?
Context: John Tabb DuVal is an award-winning translator of Old French, Modern French, Italian, Romanesco, and Italian and has been a professor of English and Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas since 1982.  Born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, in 1940, to Thaddeus Ernest DuVal and Helene Dupont Cau, DuVal grew up in Jenkintown, a suburb of Philadelphia.  He holds an A.B. in English from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a Master of Arts in English from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master's in French, a Master of Fine Arts in Translation, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Arkansas.  Until 2008 DuVal directed the University's acclaimed Program in Literary Translation.  Known for his numerous entertaining keynote addresses on translation, he is also the author of thirteen books of translation, and his original poems and articles on translation have been published and republished widely.  DuVal's teaching areas of expertise include Translation Theory and Practice; Creative Writing; Comparative Literature; World Sonnet; Dante; Medieval Literature; and Epic Poetry.  DuVal was named Fulbright College Visiting Fellow to Wolfson College of Cambridge University (UK) for the year 2010-2011 to complete his translation of the French epic, "The Song of Roland". Morton Wilfred Bloomfield (May 19, 1913 – April 14, 1987) was a scholar, specialist in medieval literature and language and the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of English at Harvard University.  He is best known for his work on medieval literature, language, as well as contributions to intellectual history, literary criticism and theory.  He also was one of the founders of the first national center for the humanities, the National Humanities Center.  As an author, he is largely collected by libraries. Victoria Cirlot Valenzuela (born 1955) is a Spanish scholar of medieval culture and literature, philologist, translator and editor.  She is currently a professor of medieval literature and comparative literature at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Celtic religion professor at the University of Barcelona, and professor of symbology at the Universitat Ramon Llull in the same city.  The collection El Árbol del Paraíso of the Editorial Siruela (Madrid) is co-directed by her.  She is also a founding member of the Institut Universitari de Cultura and coordinator of the research team of the Biblioteca Mystica et Philosophica Alois M. Haas.  Cirlot is a member of the Institut Carl Gustav Jung Barcelona.  Some of her influences are the study of mysticism, symbology and the history of religions on one hand, and by the aesthetics of reception on the other. Dorsey Armstrong (born 1970) is Professor of English and Medieval Literature at Purdue University.  She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Duke University in 1998.  Before joining the English department at Purdue in 2002, she taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and California State University, Long Beach.  Her research interests include medieval women writers; late medieval print culture; and the Arthurian legend. Harold Orton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was a Dialectologist and Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds. Carolyn P. Collette is an American literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature, particularly Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales."  She is Professor Emerita of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, in England. The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa.  UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College making it the oldest higher education institute in South Africa, it is jointly the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest extant university in Sub-Saharan Africa alongside Stellenbosch University which received full university status on the same day in 1918.  UCT is the highest-ranked African university in the QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities, and its Law and Commerce Faculties are consistently placed among the hundred best internationally.  The language of instruction is English. Vincent Gillespie (born 1954) is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Oxford, editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series, and the director of the Early English Text Society.  He is the author of "Looking in Holy Books", "Syon Abbey" (in the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues), and the forthcoming "A Short History of Medieval English Mysticism".  He is the co-editor, with Kantik Ghosh, of "After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England", with Susan Powell of "A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558", with Samuel Fanous of "The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism", and with Anne Hudson of "Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century".  In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society; in 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Richard M. Hogg (20 May 1944 – 6 September 2007) was a Scottish linguist who was well known for his research on Old English, phonology, and English dialects.  He received his Ph.D. from Edinburgh University under the supervision of Angus McIntosh and John Anderson .  He was initially a lecturer in English at the University of Amsterdam from 1969-1973, then taught at the University of Lancaster; from 1980 until his death in 2007 he was Smith Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Manchester.  He served as dean of the arts faculty at Manchester from 1990 to 1993. Leslie Frank Casson (1903–1969) was a mediaevalist and art historian.  Born in England, he was professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1952–68, where he was also head of the department.  His area of interest extended from Latin manuscripts to the poetry of Edmund Spenser.  He also worked on the manuscripts in the Grey Collection, the library bequeathed by George Grey to the National Library of South Africa; it comprises 5,000 volumes, including 115 manuscripts from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.  For the Early English Text Society, he edited the Middle English romance "Sir Degrevant".
Answer: 1829