Emily Grosholz

Emily Rolfe Grosholz is an American philosopher, poet, and literary critic. She earned her BA from University of Chicago and her PhD in philosophy from Yale University. She is the author of many poetry collections, including The Stars of Earth, Childhood, The Abacus of Years, Shores and Headlands, The River Painter, Eden, and Proportions of the Heart: Poems that Play with Mathematics.

Her books of criticism and scholarship include Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry, Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction, Leibniz's Science of the Rational, and Reflections on Poetry and the World: Walking along the Hudson. She is also the translator of French poet Yves Bonnefoy’s Début et Fin de la Neige (Beginning and End of the Snow).

Grosholz is the editor of several books, including Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin and The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir; and coeditor of W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture. She is the Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English at Penn State University, is a member of the Center for Fundamental Theory / Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, and is a researcher with REHSEIS / SPHERE / CNRS and University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7.