american academics
Adam Yarmolinsky
1923 births | 2000 deaths | american academics | american educators | american jews | people from baltimore, maryland | people from new york city | place of birth missing | university of maryland, baltimore facultyProfessor Adam Yarmolinsky (1923 - 2000), son of Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, was an American academic, educator as well as a political apointee who served in numerous capacities in the Kennedy, Johnson and Carter administrations.
Besides serving in the White House, he also held posts in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He was an aide to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Pentagon, where Yarmolinsky was an early critic of American policies in the Vietnam war.
Maryly V. Peck
american academics | living people | university of florida alumni | vanderbilt university alumniDr. Maryly VanLeer Peck is an American academic, and the former President of Polk Community College. Peck graduated with her Bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University in 1951. She received her Masters degree in chemical engineering from the University of Florida in 1955. In addition she received her Doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Florida in 1963. In 1982 she was selected to be President of Polk Community College, and she served in this position until 1997.
James DiGiovanna
american academics | american journalists | american writers | living people | state university of new york at stony brook alumni | state university of new york at stony brook facultyJames DiGiovanna is an award-winning film reviewer and filmmaker, and the author of a number of published short stories. Together with Bob Grimm, he is one of two Cinema Writers on the staff of Tucson Weekly. >, Tucson Weekly Masthead He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Michael H. Jameson
1924 births | 2004 deaths | american academicsMichael Hamilton Jameson (London 15 October 1924 — 15 August 2004) was a classicist. At the times of his death he was Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies Emeritus at Stanford University.
His father, Raymond D. Jameson, professor of Western literature at the University of Peking, and mother, Rose Perel Jameson, were visting London at the time of his birth.Biographical details for this article are drawn from the biographical memoir by Martin Ostwald (References) He spent his childhood in Beijing and with his mother in London, received his A.B. in Greek at the University of Chicago in 1942, aged seventeen, served in the U.S. Navy as a Japanese translator, 1943-46, then married Virginia Broyles. He received his Ph.D. at Chicago in 1949, with a dissertation on "The Offering at Meals: Its Place in Greek Sacrifice". A Fulbright Fellowship in 1949 supported him at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, where he hiked the Peloponnesos with his new wife and gained an intimate knowledge of inscriptions. After a brief stint at the University of Minnesota, he accepted a Ford Fellowship at the Institute for Social Anthropology at Oxford University. On his return to the United states, be began his long association with the University of Pennsylvania (1954-76).
David Lee Miller
1951 births | american academics | living peopleDavid Lee Miller (b. 1951) is a noted scholar of English Renaissance Literature, currently Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. His works include The Poem's Two Bodies: The Poetics of the 1590 Faerie Queen, (Princeton UP, 1988); Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness (Cornell UP, 2003); three edited books; and about two dozen refereed articles that have appeared in scholarly journals such as Modern Language Quarterly, English Literary History, and Publications of the Modern Language Association. He is one of four general editors of The Collected Works of Edmund Spenser, a new scholarly edition under contract to Oxford University Press.
Miller's scholarly work has been especially devoted to the canon of Edmund Spenser, a contemporary of Shakespeare's whose Faerie Queene is considered one of the two or three greatest epic poems in the language. Spenser was the subject of The Poem's Two Bodies in 1988, and Miller is currently helping to prepare a new scholarly edition of the great English poet. But in many of the articles, and most notably in Dreams of the Burning Child, Miller ranges freely through ancient, early modern, and modern literatures and through both popular and high cultures in order to demonstrate a central thesis: that Western culture is fixated on the sacrifice of sons as a means of shoring up patriarchal authority. The work is theoretically sophisticated, but Miller's playful, engaging style has been praised for avoiding the turgidity and pretentious jargon that have characterized much academic literary criticism in recent decades.
