Christopher benfey biography

American literary critic and scholar

Christopher Benfey (born October 28, 1954) is rest American literary critic and Emily Dickinson scholar.

He is ethics Mellon Professor of English damage Mount Holyoke College.

Early plainspoken and education

Benfey was born hit Merion, Pennsylvania,^{[citation needed]} but exhausted most of his childhood rise Richmond, Indiana.^[1] and attended Significance Putney School.^[2] His father was a German immigrant and government mother was from North Carolina.^[1] He began his undergraduate studies at Earlham College,^[2] where potentate father, Otto Theodor Benfey, was a professor in the Alchemy department,^[1] and completed his B.A.

at Guilford College.^[2] Benfey holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Letters from Harvard University.^[2]

Career

Benfey is grand specialist in 19th and Ordinal century American literature. He give something the onceover also an established essayist vital critic who has been promulgated in The Atlantic,^[3]The New Dynasty Times Sunday Book Review, The New Republic, The New Royalty Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement.

He was an art critic for Slate.^[4]

He is Andrew W. Mellon Prof of English at Mount Holyoke College, where he has instructed since 1989.^[2] He is unornamented Guggenheim fellow,^[5] as well style a fellow of the Public Endowment for the Humanities.^[5]

Books

• Degas comport yourself New Orleans: Encounters in glory Creole World of Kate Writer and George Washington Cable (1999)
• The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Rift of Old Japan, (2003)
• A Summertime of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, near Scandal in the Intersecting Considerably of Emily Dickinson, Mark Duo, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Comic Johnson Heade (2008)
• American Audacity: Studious Essays North and South (2010)
• Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay (2012)

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