George A. Kennedy (classicist)
George Alexander Kennedy (November 26, 1928 – July 28, 2022) was an American scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.[1][2][3]
Biography[edit]
George Alexander Kennedy was born in Hartford, Connecticut on November 26, 1928. He 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 served as the editor of the American Journal of Philology.[2]
George A. Kennedy died in Spring, Texas on July 28, 2022, at the age of 93.[6]
Selected publications[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ Renz, Thomas (2002). The rhetorical function of the book of Ezekiel. BRILL. p. 3. ISBN 9780391041622.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ "George Alexander Kennedy - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation". www.gf.org. Archived from the original on 2013-06-03.
- ^ "Nomination of Aram Bakshian, Jr., To Be a Member of the National Council on the Humanities". Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
- ^ "Dr. George Alexander Kennedy". Neptune Society. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
