George Alexander Kennedy (born November 26, 1928, in Hartford, Connecticut; died July 28, 2022 in Spring, TX) was a scholar of classical rhetoric and literature. Kennedy received his Ph.D. in classics from

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in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "PROLEGOMENA AND COMMENTARY TO QUINTILIAN VIII (PR. & 1-3)". Kennedy taught classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-eight years. He retired as George L. Paddison professor of classics. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 1959. He is a Fellow of the

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and was elected a member of the

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. Under President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy served on the National Council on the Humanities and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. Kennedy served as the editor of the

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. Dr. Kennedy died July 28, 2022, in Spring, TX (Age 93).

Major publications

*1989-2013. ''The Cambridge history of literary criticism.'' Cambridge University Press. *1994. ''A new history of classical rhetoric : with additional discussion of late Latin rhetoric.'' Princeton University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kennedy, George A. 1928 births Living people Harvard University alumni Classical scholars of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill American classical scholars Members of the American Philosophical Society Educators from Hartford, Connecticut