Kathy Eden
Chavkin Family Professor of English Literature and Professor of Classics
My Contact Info
401 A Philosophy, Mail Code: 4932, United States Office Hours Fall 2022
Tuesdays 5:30 – 6:45 PM, Wednesdays 6:00 – 7:15 PM+1 212 854 6432
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Kathy Eden
Research Interests
Renaissance HumanismHistory of Rhetoric
Hermeneutics
Ancient Literary Theory
History of Classical Scholarship
Renaissance / Early Modern
Biography
Kathy Eden, Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics, began teaching at?Columbia in 1980 after receiving her PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University.?Her fields of study include Renaissance Humanism, the History of Rhetoric, and the Classical?Tradition. She is the author of Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition (Princeton University Press, 1986; pbk 2014), Hermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the?Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception (Yale University Press, 1997; pbk 2002), Friends?Hold All Things in Common: Tradition, Intellectual Property and the “Adages” of Erasmus (Yale University Press, 2001; winner Roland Bainton Award for Literature), and The?Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy (University of Chicago Press, 2012; pbk 2017). She has?received fellowships from the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the?Rockefeller Foundation, All Souls, Oxford, and the Peter Szondi Institute, Freie Universitaet,?Berlin. In 2019 she became a member of the American Philosophical Society. Her teaching?awards from Columbia include the Great Teachers’ Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, the Mark Van Doren Award, and the Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching.?She is currently working on a book-length manuscript entitled “Rhetorical Renaissance: the?Mistress Art and her Masterworks.”Selected Publications
Poetic and Legal Fiction in the Aristotelian Tradition
Kathy EdenHermeneutics and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the Ancient Legacy and Its Humanist Reception
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