George A. Kennedy (classicist)
George Alexander Kennedy (born November 26, 1928, in Hartford, Connecticut; died July 28, 2022 in Spring, TX)[1] was a scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.[2][3][4]
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.[5] 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[6] and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.[3]
Kennedy served as the editor of the American Journal of Philology.[3]
Dr. Kennedy died July 28, 2022, in Spring, TX (Age 93).[7]
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.
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