Not a philosopher or classicist among the MacArthur 'genius' fellowships this year.
(A point of method. Shouldn't the very first genius fellowships be awarded to those who have a genius for recognizing genius, and then we can proceed from there?)
But I thought you might be interested in seeing all past recipients from those fields.
Classics Ann Ellis Hanson Historian Leslie V. Kurke Classicist and Literary Scholar Dirk Obbink Classicist and Papyrologist Thomas G. Palaima Classicist Gregory Vlastos Classicist and Philosopher Philosophy Stanley Cavell Philosopher Patricia Smith Churchland Philosopher Leszek Kolakowski Historian of Philosophy and Religion Richard Rorty Philosopher Thomas M. Scanlon Philosopher Judith N. Shklar Political Philosophy
Now, if only genius were received as a gift, as much as the fellowship.
8 comments:
Hi Michael, good to see you're back. My then colleague Anne Carson also won a MacArthur. Anne may be most famous as poet, but by professional training she's a classicist; she's published translations of lots of Greek poetry (Sappho, Euripides), and much of her poetry emerges from some kind of encounter with classical poetry.
Best wishes for the new academic year,
Stephen
Actually, depending on how broadly you define "classicist," you might also include the excellent Byzantinist Maria Mavroudi. While there are a fair number of people working on Greek-to-Arabic translation literature, Maria is one of very few working on Arabic-to-Greek translation literature. If the very idea of Arabic-to-Greek translation literature impresses people as paradoxical, that impression itself should be food for thought: look at the Teubner of the Oneirokritikon of Achmet, the subject of Maria's dissertation.
There must be a mistake, Richard Rorty isn't a philosopher :)
Welcome back, Michael.
You forgot classicist Danielle Allen (2001).
...and if Anne Carson counts as a classicist, so does Jim Powell (1993).
Glad to see Dissoi Blogoi's active again.
Also, my colleague Nancy Cartwright is a philosopher and former MacArthur "fellow" -- thus the UCSD philosophy department has had (and still has) two genii. --Monte
Glad to see you blogging again, Michael.
Susan Rotroff, my colleague in the Classics department here at WUSTL, won a MacArthur fellowship. (She's a classical archaeologist.)
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