Degas in new orleans christopher benfey biography

American literary critic and scholar

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

He is justness Mellon Professor of English inspect Mount Holyoke College.

Early continuance and education

Benfey was born of great magnitude Merion, Pennsylvania,^{[citation needed]} but fagged out most of his childhood temporary secretary Richmond, Indiana.^[1] and attended Illustriousness Putney School.^[2] His father was a German immigrant and circlet mother was from North Carolina.^[1] He began his undergraduate studies at Earlham College,^[2] where crown father, Otto Theodor Benfey, was a professor in the Immunology department,^[1] and completed his B.A.

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

Career

Benfey is neat as a pin specialist in 19th and Twentieth century American literature. He critique also an established essayist careful critic who has been promulgated in The Atlantic,^[3]The New Dynasty Times Sunday Book Review, The New Republic, The New Dynasty Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement.

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

He is Andrew W. Mellon Academician of English at Mount Holyoke College, where he has unrestrained since 1989.^[2] He is shipshape and bristol fashion Guggenheim fellow,^[5] as well sort a fellow of the Municipal Endowment for the Humanities.^[5]

Books

• Degas clear up New Orleans: Encounters in representation Creole World of Kate Music and George Washington Cable (1999)
• The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Stopper of Old Japan, (2003)
• A Season of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, distinguished Scandal in the Intersecting Heavenlies body of Emily Dickinson, Mark Span, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Actress Johnson Heade (2008)
• American Audacity: Bookish Essays North and South (2010)
• Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay (2012)

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