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Catherine Prendergast
Catherine Jean Prendergast is an American literary scholar. She is professor of English at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Biography Prendergast received her B.A. from Columbia University in 1990 and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research focuses on the intersections of social and literary, cultural movements as well as the spread of the English language. Her book ''Literacy and Racial Justice: The Politics of Learning after Brown v. Board of Education'' (2003) has won the Mina P. Shaughnessy Award from the Modern Language Association for "an outstanding scholarly book in the fields of language, culture, literacy, and literature that has a strong application to the teaching of English." Prendergast received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 for her book, ''The Gilded Edge,'' which investigates the circumstances surrounding the suicides of Nora May French, George Sterling, and Carrie Sterling by cyanide ingestion''.'' Personal life and fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Intellectual History
Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual history is that ideas do not develop in isolation from the thinkers who conceptualize and apply those ideas; thus the intellectual historian studies ideas in two contexts: (i) as abstract propositions for critical application; and (ii) in concrete terms of culture, life, and history. As a field of intellectual enquiry, the history of ideas emerged from the European disciplines of '' Kulturgeschichte'' (Cultural History) and ''Geistesgeschichte'' (Intellectual History) from which historians might develop a global intellectual history that shows the parallels and the interrelations in the history of critical thinking in every society. Likewise, the history of reading, and the history of the book, about the material aspects of book production (des ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |