George A. Kennedy (classicist)
George Alexander Kennedy (born 1928) is a contemporary scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.[1][2][3]
Kennedy received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University 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.[4] He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Under President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy served on the National Council on the Humanities[5] and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.[2]
Kennedy has also been the editor of the American Journal of Philology.[2]
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
- ↑ Renz, Thomas (2002). The rhetorical function of the book of Ezekiel. BRILL. p. 3. ISBN 9780391041622.
- 1 2 3 Enos, Theresa (1996). Encyclopedia of rhetoric and composition: communication from ancient times to the information age. Taylor & Francis. p. 375. ISBN 9780824072001.
- ↑ George Alexander Kennedy (1999). Classical Rhetoric & Its Christian & Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4769-5.
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/7749-george-alexander-kennedy
- ↑ "Nomination of Aram Bakshian, Jr., To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Retrieved 16 December 2010.