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  2. Phillis Wheatley is regarded as the first African American woman and only the third American woman to have published a volume of poetry. Her work was important in overturning the notions that literary culture flowed in only one direction, from Europe to the Americas, and that a woman and enslaved person could not produce poetry of the highest order.Born in West Africa, she was kidnapped as a ...
  3. On September 6, 2018, at Emory University, the American Academy hosted a Morton L. Mandel Public Lecture on "The Study of African American Women's Writing: Pasts & Futures." The program, which included a welcome from Dwight A. McBride, served as the 2069th Stated Meeting of the American Academy. Michelle M. Wright introduced the evening's speakers - Frances Smith Foster, Beverly Guy ...
  4. Comparative literature is at once a subject of study, a general approach to literature, a series of specific methods of literary history, a return to a medieval way of thought, a methodological credo for the day, an administrative annoyance, a new wrinkle in university organization, a recherché academic pursuit, a recognition that even the humanities have a role to play in the affairs of the ...
  5. As early as the 1880s, Dartmouth, Wellesley, and Brown were offering, at least sporadically, courses on American authors, though the subject remained dispensable enough that NYU, which ran an American literature course from 1885 to 1888, allowed it to fall into abeyance until 1914. 3 The scholar who first installed the subject in one of the new ...
  6. The change began early in the twentieth century, when younger scholars of classical literature, together with their colleagues in philology, philosophy, literature, history, art, and music, began to use the word humanities as a general term to refer to what bound their inquiries loosely together. Still, up until 1930, the use of this term in ...
  7. Modern cosmopolitanism is largely an affair of philosophy and the social sciences. Whether one thinks of the ideal ethical projects of worldwide solidarity of the eighteenth-century French philosophes or Kant, or of more recently emerging discourses of new cosmopolitanism in our era of economic globalization, transnational migration, and global communications, literature seems to have little ...
  8. The first national survey on the humanities finds wide agreement about the personal and societal benefits of the humanities, substantial engagement with a range of humanities activities at home and in the workplace, as well as strong support for teaching most humanities subjects in the schools. The survey, conducted in fall 2019 by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Humanities ...
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    Between 1853 and 1867 the Academy published Member and naturalist David Humphreys Storer's "A History of the Fishes of Massachusetts" in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Later published in a book of the same title in 1867, it was called by Academy Member and entomologist Samuel H. Scudder a "land-mark in the ichthyological literature of the country."
  10. This essay reflects my perspective as a folklorist who for the past forty years has studied the American South and the intersection of the region's literature with oral traditions, visual arts, and music. 1 The blending of these worlds has had a significant impact on Southern writers and how they shape their region's narrative voice. 2 Perhaps more than any other region in America, the ...
  11. Literature teachers describe the differences that different places and times account for in works, and try to demonstrate their special narrative and poetic powers. Literary history-even an account of changes in student stories- may supply the historians of economic, social, and political change with something between filigree and marrow.
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