Emily Rolfe Grosholz (born 1950
Philadelphia
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) is an American poet and philosopher. She is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English, and a member of the Center for Fundamental Theory / Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, at the
Pennsylvania State University
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.
She was the 2011 Elizabeth McNulty Wilkinson '25 Poetry Chair, at
Buffalo Seminary
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Accreditations and memberships
SEM is an accredited member of the N ...
in March 2011.
From September 2011 through January 2012, she was a senior researcher at REHSEIS / SPHERE / CNRS and University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7, with a 'Research in Paris 2011' grant from the city of Paris.
Life
She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She graduated from the
University of Chicago
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, with a B.A. in 1972, and
Yale University
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with a Ph.D. in
Philosophy in 1978.
She was a 1988
Guggenheim Fellow
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. She held
National Endowment for the Humanities
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fellowships in 1985 and in 2004, and
American Council of Learned Societies fellowships in 1982 and 1997.
She has served as an advisory editor for the
Hudson Review
''The Hudson Review'' is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts.
History
It was founded in 1947 in New York, by William Arrowsmith, Joseph Deericks Bennett, and George Frederick Morgan. The first issue was introduced in the spring of 194 ...
since 1984. She has been a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of the History of Ideas
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since 1998, a member of the editorial board of
Studia Leibnitiana
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since 2002, and a member of the editorial board of the ''Journal of Humanistic Mathematics'' since 2010. She is a member of the Directive Committee of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice.
She is married to the medievalist Robert R. Edwards, with whom she has four children.
Works
Autobiography/Essay
*''Great Circles'', Springer, 2018, (eBook)
Poetry
*''The River Painter'', University of Illinois Press, 1984,
*''Shores and Headlands'', Princeton University Press, 1988,
*''Eden'', Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992,
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*''Feuilles; Huit poèmes: Edition bilingue français-anglais'', with Farhad Ostovani, William Blake And Co, 2009,
*''Beginning and End of the Snow'', Bucknell University Press, 2012, (English Translation of Yves Bonnefoy ''Debut et fin de la Neige'', Mercure de France; with drawings by Farhad Ostovani)
*''Proportions of the Heart: Poems that Play with Mathematics'', Tessellations Publishing, 2014, (with mathematical artwork by Robert Fathauer)
*''Childhood'', Accents Publishing, 2014, (with drawings by Lucy Vines), translated to
Yoruba language
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in 2021 by
Kola Tubosun
Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún is a Nigerian linguist, writer, translator, scholar, and cultural activist.
*''The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems'', Word Galaxy Press, 2017,
Philosophy
*''Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction'' (1991)
Oxford University Press
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*
*''Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences'',Oxford University Press, 2007,
"The Humanism of Ernst Cassirer" ''Hudson Review''
*''Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology'' (2016)
Springer Verlag
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, SAPERE. In Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics Series (edited by Lorenzo Magnani).
*"Was Leibniz a mathematical revolutionary?", pages 117 to 133 of
Revolutions in Mathematics
{{italic title
''Revolutions in Mathematics'' is a 1992 collection of essays in the history and philosophy of mathematics.
Contents
*Michael J. Crowe, Ten "laws" concerning patterns of change in the history of mathematics (1975) (15–20);
*Herbe ...
(1992) Gillies editor, Oxford University Press.
Editor
*Emily Grosholz, James Stewart and Bernard Bell (Eds), ''W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture'', Routledge, 1996,
*Emily Grosholz (Ed), ''Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin'', University Press of New England, 1997,
*Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger (Eds), ''The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, Kluwer'', 1999,
*Emily Grosholz (Ed), ''The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir'', Oxford University Press, 2004 / 2008,
*Emily Grosholz, Carlo Cellucci and Emiliano Ippoliti (Eds), ''Logic and Knowledge'', Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011,
*Emily Grosholz (Ed), Studia Leibnitiana, Band 44, Heft 1 (2012), Franz Steiner Verlag, ISSN 0039-3185 (Special issue on Leibniz, Time and History)
References
External links
"Emily Grosholz Interview" ''Southern Bookman''
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Writers from Philadelphia
University of Chicago alumni
Yale University alumni
Living people
1950 births
American women poets
21st-century American women