Faculty Directory
Emily Rolfe Grosholz
Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies, and English
Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Contact:
201 Sparks Building
University Park , PA 16802
erg2@psu.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesday 1-2:30, Thursday 12:30-2:00
Educational History:
BA University of Chicago
Ph D Yale University
Research Interests:
Poetry, African American Studies, Women's Studies, Poetry in relation to the Sciences and Mathematics, Emergence of English Prosody in 16 th and 17 th centuries, Ethics and Rhetoric, Poetry in Translation
Awards:
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1989
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, 1988
- Djerassi Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Woodside , California , May 1-June 15 1984
Major Literary Publications:
The Abacus of Years (poems), David R. Godine, 2002.
Eden (poems), Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Shores and Headlands (poems), Princeton University Press, 1988.
The River Painter (poems), University of Illinois Press , 1984.
“ Cypress and Bitter Laurel,” a narrative poem, The Reaper , Vol. 17, pp. 75-103. It was
posted and is now archived on the poetrynet website:
http://members.aol.com/poetrynet/month (“Poet of the Month,” March 2001)
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford University Press, 2004.
W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture: Philosophy, Politics, Poetics . Co-edited with J. Stewart and B. Bell. Routledge, 1997.
Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin , E. Grosholz, ed., University Press of New England , 1996.
National Professional Service:
- Advisory Editor, The Hudson Review , 1984-Present
- President, Poets' Prize Committee, 1993-1996; Judge, Poets' Prize, 1988-2004
- Judge, Poetry Society of America Awards, 1989
- Judge, Glascock Poetry Contest, Mount Holyoke College , 1996
- Member, American Academy of Poets
- Member, Poetry Society of America
- Member, Associated Writing Programs
Other Publications:
My poems and over 50 critical reviews and essays have appeared in The Hudson Review , Poetry , New York Times Book Review , Women's Review of Books , Sewanee Review , Southern Review , the Mathematical Intelligencer , and other journals, and are reprinted in over twenty-five anthologies.
Teaching:
Phil. 413 and Phil. 113 Philosophy and Literature
Phil. 469 African American Philosophy
Phil. 589 French Translation Seminar (Beauvoir and Sartre)
Phil. 003 and Phil. 103 Ethics and Rhetoric
Instructor, West Chester University Poetry Conference, Sewanee Writers' Conference, Wesleyan Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Chautauqua Writers' Center
