Emily Grosholz

Emily Rolfe Grosholz (born 1950 Philadelphia) 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.[1]

She was the 2011 Elizabeth McNulty Wilkinson '25 Poetry Chair, at Buffalo Seminary in March 2011.[2]

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.[3]

Life

She was raised in the suburbs of Philadelphia. She graduated from the University of Chicago, with a B.A. in 1972, and Yale University with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1978.[4]

She was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow.[5] She held National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 1985 and in 2004,[6] and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships in 1982 and 1997.[7]

She has served as an advisory editor for the Hudson Review since 1984.[8] She has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas since 1998, a member of the editorial board of Studia Leibnitiana since 2002, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics since 2010.[9] She is a member of the Directive Committee of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice.[10]

She is married to the medievalist Robert R. Edwards, with whom she has four children.

Works

Autobiography/Essay
  • Great Circles, Springer, 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-98230-4 ISBN 978-3-319-98231-1 (eBook) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-98231-1 LCCN 2018-954226

Poetry
  • The River Painter, University of Illinois Press, 1984, ISBN 978-0-252-01098-9
  • Shores and Headlands, Princeton University Press, 1988, ISBN 978-0-691-06749-0
  • Eden, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, ISBN 978-0-8018-4390-7
  • The Abacus of Years. David R. Godine Publisher, Inc. 2001. ISBN 978-1-56792-155-7.
  • Feuilles; Huit poèmes: Edition bilingue français-anglais, with Farhad Ostovani, William Blake And Co, 2009, ISBN 978-2-84103-165-8
  • Beginning and End of the Snow, Bucknell University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-61148-458-8 (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, ISBN 978-1-938664-10-6 (with mathematical artwork by Robert Fathauer)
  • Childhood, Accents Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-1-936628-27-8 (with drawings by Lucy Vines)
  • The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems, Word Galaxy Press, 2017, ISBN 978-1-77349-001-4

Philosophy
  • Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction (1991) Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-824250-5
  • Emily Grosholz & Elkanan Yakira (1998). Leibniz's science of the rational. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3-515-07400-1.
  • Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences,Oxford University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-929973-7
  • "The Humanism of Ernst Cassirer", Hudson Review
  • Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (2016) Springer Verlag, 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 (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, ISBN 0-415-91556-2
  • Emily Grosholz (Ed), Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, University Press of New England, 1997, ISBN 978-0-87451-784-2
  • Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger (Eds), The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, Kluwer, 1999, ISBN 0-7923-6151-2
  • Emily Grosholz (Ed), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford University Press, 2004 / 2008, ISBN 0-19-926535-6
  • Emily Grosholz, Carlo Cellucci and Emiliano Ippoliti (Eds), Logic and Knowledge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4438-3008-9
  • Emily Grosholz (Ed), Studia Leibnitiana, Band 44, Heft 1 (2012), Franz Steiner Verlag, ISSN 0039-3185 (Special issue on Leibniz, Time and History)

References
  1. "Emily Grosholz —". philosophy.la.psu.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  2. "News Post". www.buffaloseminary.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  3. "Professionnels – Paris.fr". www.paris.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  4. "Poet of the Month: Emily Grosholz". poetrynet.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  5. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Emily Grosholz".
  6. "neh.gov | National Endowment for the Humanities". www.neh.gov. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  7. "ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | Home". ACLS American Council of Learned Societies | www.acls.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  8. "The Hudson Review". The Hudson Review. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  9. "Journal of Humanistic Mathematics - an online-only, open access, peer reviewed journal | Journals at Claremont | Claremont Colleges". scholarship.claremont.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-25.
  10. "Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice". www.philmathpractice.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
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