Helen Vendler
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Helen Hennessy Vendler (born April 30, 1933) is an American literary critic who teaches at Harvard University.
Personal life
Helen Vendler was married to Zeno Vendler from 1960 to 1963; the couple had one child.
Life and career
Helen Hennessy Vendler was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 30, 1933, to George Hennessy and Helen née Newman Hennessy. 399 She was the second of three children. As a child, her parents encouraged her to read poems. At a high school, the Vendler's father taught Spanish, French, and Italian, while her mother had attended a primary school prior to marriage. Because her parents refused to allow her to enroll in "secular education," Vendler attended Emmanuel College over the Boston Girls' Latin School and Radcliffe College. She was given an A. Emmanuel B.: 399
Vendler received a Fulbright Fellowship for his participation in the University of Louvain from 1954 to 1955, receiving a 399 for mathematics. But while heading to the university, she discovered that she would rather study English than math, and that the Fulbright commission encouraged her to shift her attention to literature. Vendler taught English at Boston University for a year, and in 1956, he attended Harvard University as a graduate student in English. According to the New York Times, the department's chair told her within a week of entry that "we don't want any women here," while Perry Miller refused to enroll her in a seminar he led on Herman Melville despite seeing her as his "finest student." Other Harvard professors, including I, gave her more help. A. Richards. In 1959, Vendler was given a teaching position in Harvard's English department, making her the first woman in the department to have a teaching career. She turned down.
The next year, Vendler earned a Ph.D. in English and American literature. She began teaching English at Cornell University in 1960, 399 after her husband, Zeno Vendler, was stationed there to teach. She left Cornell in 1963 and spent several years at various colleges, including a year (1964-1966) as an assistant professor and another as full professor at Haverford College and Swarthmore College. Vendler spent a year at the University of Bordeaux as a Fulbright Lecturer. She served as Boston University's director of graduate studies in the English department from 1970 to 1975, then 1979, 399.
Vendler has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; she has taught alternating semesters at Harvard and Boston University from 1981 to 1984. She has said she continued her BU connections for many years to ensure that she wasn't "some little token person" at Harvard. Vendler was named as the William R. Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language in 1985. She served as associate dean of arts and sciences from 1987 to 1992. She was named A. Kingsley Porter University Professor, the first woman to hold the position in 1990. Vendler was named an honorary Litt in 1992. Bates College, D.C.
Vendler spoke at the 2000 Warton Lecture on English Poetry. The National Endowment for Humanities selected her for the Jefferson Lecture in 2004, the highest award given to women in the humanities by the federal government. "The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar" by Wallace Stevens' lecture argued for the role of the arts in the study of humanities (as opposed to history and philosophy). Vendler was dubbed "America's most influential poetry critic" by the New York Times in 2006, and she credited her with helping "establish or secure the reputations" of poets including Jorie Graham, Seamus Heaney, and Rita Dove.
Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney have all written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She has also served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1974, 1976, 1978, 1986), and the National Book Award for Poetry (1972).