Kathy Eden
{{Short description|American professor of 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.{{Cite web |title=Kathy Eden {{!}} The Department of English and Comparative Literature |url=https://english.columbia.edu/content/kathy-eden |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=english.columbia.edu}}
Biography
Eden grew up on Long Island, the daughter of a surgeon and a homemaker.{{Cite web |title=Columbia College Today |url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct_archive/jul03/cover.html |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=www.college.columbia.edu}} She obtained her BA from Smith College, where she studied under Karl Paul Donfried, and PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University.{{Cite web |title=Kathy H. Eden {{!}} SOF/Heyman Profile |url=https://sofheyman.org/persons/kathy-h-eden |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=SOF/Heyman |language=en}} Her research has included Renaissance humanism and the history of rhetorical and poetic theory in antiquity. She also teaches the Core Curriculum for Columbia undergraduates. Her students in academia included former Modern Language Association president Michael Bérubé and Luke Leafgren, dean of Mather House of Harvard College.{{Cite web |title=Luke Leafgren |url=https://mather.harvard.edu/people/luke-leafgren |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=mather.harvard.edu |language=en}}
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1998.{{Cite web |title=Kathy Eden |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/kathy-eden/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |language=en-US}} In 2019, Eden became a member of the American Philosophical Society.{{Cite web |title=APS Announces 2019 Class of New Members |url=https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/aps-announces-2019-class-new-members |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=American Philosophical Society |language=en}}
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