Emily Grosholz Explained

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, (eBook)

Poetry

• The River Painter, University of Illinois Press, 1984,
• Shores and Headlands, Princeton University Press, 1988,
• Eden, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992,
• Book: The Abacus of Years. David R. Godine Publisher, Inc.. 2001. 978-1-56792-155-7.
• Feuilles; Huit poèmes: Edition bilingue français-anglais, with Farhad Ostovani, William Blake And Co, 2009,
• Beginning and End of the Snow, Bucknell University Press, 2012, (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, (with mathematical artwork by Robert Fathauer)
• Childhood, Accents Publishing, 2014, (with drawings by Lucy Vines), translated to Yoruba language in 2021 by Kola Tubosun^{[11] [12]}
• The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems, Word Galaxy Press, 2017,

Philosophy

• • Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction (1991) Oxford University Press Book: Leibniz's science of the rational. Franz Steiner Verlag. 1998. 978-3-515-07400-1 . Emily Grosholz . Elkanan Yakira . amp.
• Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences,Oxford University Press, 2007,
• "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,
• Emily Grosholz (Ed), Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, University Press of New England, 1997,
• Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger (Eds), The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, Kluwer, 1999,
• Emily Grosholz (Ed), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford University Press, 2004 / 2008,
• Emily Grosholz, Carlo Cellucci and Emiliano Ippoliti (Eds), Logic and Knowledge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011,
• Emily Grosholz (Ed), Studia Leibnitiana, Band 44, Heft 1 (2012), Franz Steiner Verlag, ISSN 0039-3185 (Special issue on Leibniz, Time and History)

External links

• "Emily Grosholz Interview", Southern Bookman
• "Crossing the Canal St. Martin"

Notes and References

1. Web site: Emily Grosholz —. philosophy.la.psu.edu. 2018-08-08.
2. Web site: News Post. www.buffaloseminary.org. 2018-08-08.
3. Web site: Professionnels – Paris.fr. www.paris.fr. fr. 2018-08-08.
4. Web site: Poet of the Month: Emily Grosholz. poetrynet.org. 2018-08-08.
5. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Emily Grosholz.
6. Web site: neh.gov National Endowment for the Humanities. www.neh.gov. en. 2018-08-08.
7. Web site: ACLS American Council of Learned Societies Home. ACLS American Council of Learned Societies www.acls.org. 2018-08-08.
8. Web site: The Hudson Review. The Hudson Review. en-US. 2018-08-08.
9. Web site: Journal of Humanistic Mathematics - an online-only, open access, peer reviewed journal Journals at Claremont Claremont Colleges. scholarship.claremont.edu. en. 2018-07-25.
10. Web site: Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. www.philmathpractice.org. en-GB. 2018-08-08.
11. Web site: 2021-06-15. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Translates American Poetry to Yoruba in New Book Ìgbà Èwe. 2021-06-17. Brittle Paper. en-US.
12. Web site: 2021-06-15. Kọ́lá Túbọ̀sún Announces Second Poetry Collection, Ìgbà Èwe. 2021-06-17. Open Country Mag. en-US.