Emily Grosholz
Encyclopedia
Emily Rolfe Grosholz is an American poet and philosopher. She is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English, and a member of the Center for Fundamental Theory / Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, at the Pennsylvania State University
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She was the 2011 Elizabeth McNulty Wilkinson '25 Poetry Chair, at Buffalo Seminary in March 2011.
From September 2011 through January 2012, at REHSEIS / SPHERE / CNRS and University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7 she is a senior researcher, with a 'Research in Paris 2011' grant from the city of Paris.
She graduated from the University of Chicago
, with a B.A. in 1972, and Yale University
with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1978.
She was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow,. She held National Endowment for the Humanities
fellowships in 1985 and in 2004, and American Council of Learned Societies
fellowships in 1982 and 1997.
She has served as an advisory editor for the Hudson Review since 1984. and has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas
since 1998.
She is married to the medievalist Robert R. Edwards; they have four children, Benjamin, Robert, William and Mary-Frances.
Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU, is a public research university with campuses and facilities throughout the state of Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855, the university has a threefold mission of teaching, research, and public service...
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She was the 2011 Elizabeth McNulty Wilkinson '25 Poetry Chair, at Buffalo Seminary in March 2011.
From September 2011 through January 2012, at REHSEIS / SPHERE / CNRS and University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7 she is a senior researcher, with a 'Research in Paris 2011' grant from the city of Paris.
Life
She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia.She graduated from the University of Chicago
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
, with a B.A. in 1972, and Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1978.
She was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow,. She held National Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities is an independent federal agency of the United States established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. The NEH is located at...
fellowships in 1985 and in 2004, and American Council of Learned Societies
American Council of Learned Societies
The American Council of Learned Societies , founded in 1919, is a private nonprofit federation of seventy scholarly organizations.ACLS is best known as a funder of humanities research through fellowships and grants awards. ACLS Fellowships are designed to permit scholars holding the Ph.D...
fellowships in 1982 and 1997.
She has served as an advisory editor for the Hudson Review since 1984. and has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas
Journal of the History of Ideas
The Journal of the History of Ideas is a peer-reviewed academic journal which publishes research in intellectual history. The journal "defines intellectual history expansively and ecumenically," and includes the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences,...
since 1998.
She is married to the medievalist Robert R. Edwards; they have four children, Benjamin, Robert, William and Mary-Frances.
Poetry
- The River Painter, University of Illinois Press, 1984, ISBN 9780252010989
- Shores and Headlands, Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 9780691067490
- Eden, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, ISBN 9780801843907
- Feuilles; Huit poèmes: Edition bilingue français-anglais, with Farhad Ostovani, William Blake And Co, 2009, ISBN 9782841031658
Philosophy
- Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction, Oxford University Press, 1991, ISBN 9780198242505
- Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences,Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 9780199299737
- "The Humanism of Ernst Cassirer", Hudson Review
Editor
- Emily Grosholz (Ed), Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, University Press of New England, 1997, ISBN 9780874517842
- Emily Grosholz, James Stewart and Bernard Bell (Eds), W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0415915562
- Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger (Eds), The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, Kluwer, 1999, ISBN 0792361512
- Emily Grosholz (Ed), The legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford University Press, 2004 / 2008, ISBN 0199265356
External links
- "Emily Grosholz Interview", Southern Bookman