Kathy Eden is an American professor of literature. She is the Chavkin Family Professor of English and Professor of Classics at

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Biography

Eden grew up on Long Island, the daughter of a surgeon and a homemaker. She obtained her BA from

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, where she studied under Karl Paul Donfried, and PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. Her research has included Renaissance humanism and the history of rhetorical and poetic theory in antiquity. She also teaches the

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for Columbia undergraduates. Her students in academia included former Modern Language Association president

Michael Bérubé Michael Bérubé (born 1961) is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches American literature, disability studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of several books on cultural studies, dis ...

and Luke Leafgren, dean of Mather House of

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. She received a

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in 1998. In 2019, Eden became a member of the

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References

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