Kathy Eden

Kathy Eden is an American professor of literature. She is the Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics at Columbia University.[2]

Kathy Eden
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1988), Great Teacher Award (1998)[1]
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineRenaissance literature
Institutions

Biography

Eden grew up on Long Island, the daughter of a surgeon and a homemaker.[3] She obtained her BA from Smith College, where she studied under Karl Paul Donfried, and PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.[4] Her research has included Renaissance humanism and the history of rhetorical and poetic theory in antiquity.[4] She also teaches the Core Curriculum for Columbia undergraduates.[3] Her students in academia included former Modern Language Association president Michael Bérubé and Luke Leafgren, dean of Mather House of Harvard College.[3][5]

She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.[6] In 2019, Eden became a member of the American Philosophical Society.[7]

References
  1. "Master Recipient List".
  2. "Kathy Eden | The Department of English and Comparative Literature". english.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  3. "Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  4. "Kathy H. Eden | SOF/Heyman Profile". SOF/Heyman. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  5. "Luke Leafgren". mather.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  6. "Kathy Eden". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
  7. "APS Announces 2019 Class of New Members". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 2022-06-07.
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