Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-
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Name (Latin)
Harpham, Geoffrey Galt, 1946-
Date of birth
1946
Field of activity
Humanities--Study and teaching
Occupation
Literary historians
Scholars
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Geoffrey Harpham page (Geoffrey Harpahm is a visiting scholar and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics; trained as a literary scholar but has worked in a wide range of fields within the humanities; interests are ethics and literary study, the concept of language, the work of Joseph Conrad, and, more recently, a variety of issues relating to educational theory and practice, especially the humanities; served as director of the National Humanities Center, 2003-2015 ( (Duke University, Kenan Institute for Ethics WWW site, November 1, 2016:) )
- His On the grotesque, 1982:CIP t.p. (Geoffrey Galt Harpham) CIP data sheet (b. 1946)
Wikipedia description:
Geoffrey Galt Harpham (born 1946) is an American academic who served as president and director of the National Humanities Center from 2002–15. One of the characteristics of his tenure was the encouragement of dialogue between the humanities on the one hand and the natural and social sciences on the other. He is a senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and also a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. His book, The Humanities and the Dream of America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2011.
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