Kathy Eden | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1988), Great Teacher Award (1998) [1] |
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Discipline | Renaissance literature |
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Kathy Eden is an American professor of literature. She is the Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics at Columbia University. [2]
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]
Kathy Eden | |
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Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (1988), Great Teacher Award (1998) [1] |
Academic background | |
Education | |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Renaissance literature |
Institutions |
Kathy Eden is an American professor of literature. She is the Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics at Columbia University. [2]
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]