Austin E. Quigley

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Austin E. Quigley
Born (1942-12-31) December 31, 1942 (age 81)
Citizenship United States
Education B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Alma mater University of Nottingham
University of Birmingham
University of California, Santa Cruz
Occupation(s)professor and academic administrator
Employer Columbia University
Known forDean of Columbia College of Columbia University
Board member of Modern Drama
New Literary History
The Pinter Review
SpousePatricia D. Denison
Children4
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Austin Edmund Quigley (born December 31, 1942) is the former Dean of Columbia College of Columbia University, Lucy G. Moses Professor, and Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, in New York City, and the recipient of the 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal, Columbia College's highest honor. [2] [3] He is also a member of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies [2] and of the Columbia University Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Theatre, has served on the editorial boards of Modern Drama , New Literary History , The Pinter Review .

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Personal history and education

Austin E. Quigley was born the second of five children, to school teachers Edmund and Marguerita Quigley, on December 31, 1942, in Northumberland, in Northern England, and later moved to the area of Newcastle. [2] [4] He earned a B.A. in English literature at the University of Nottingham in 1967, a M.A. in Modern Linguistics at Birmingham University, in 1969, and, after moving to the United States in 1969, a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1971, where he was the recipient of a Danforth Fellowship. [1] [2] [4] In 1975, a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, "The Dynamics of Dialogue: A Study of the Plays of Harold Pinter", was published by Princeton University Press as his first book, The Pinter Problem. [1] [4]

Before he became an academic, Quigley's "first ambition was a career in professional soccer, and he played as a teenager for the junior team of one of England's premier clubs, Newcastle United," and also played "varsity soccer for Nottingham University and while a student there was selected to represent the county of Nottinghamshire." [1]

Denison lives in New York with his wife, Patricia D. Denison, a senior lecturer in English at Columbia University's Barnard College. [2] [3] [5] The couple have four children together: Laura, Rebecca, Caroline, and Catherine. [2] [3]

Academic career

Quigley's first teaching position was at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in Amherst, Massachusetts, where he worked for two years before moving to the University of Virginia, where he chaired the English department before leaving to become H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 1990. [1] He also held visiting appointments at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland; the University of Konstanz, in Germany; and the University of Nottingham, in England. [1] [2]

In addition to helping to found the undergraduate major in Drama and Theatre at Columbia University and Barnard College, he also reconstructed and renewed "the Ph.D. and M.F.A. programs in theater." [1] He became associate director of the Columbia University Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies in 1992 and chairman of the Lionel Trilling Seminars in 1993. [1]

At the end of the 2008–09 academic year, after a term of 14 years, Quigley plans to resign from his posts as Dean of Columbia College and Lucy G. Moses Professor; beginning in academic year 2009–10, he will "continue to teach at Columbia and conduct research as the Brander Matthews Professor of Dramatic Literature and also will serve as special adviser to the president [of Columbia University] for undergraduate education." [3]

His scholarly and critical specialities explore "the nature and status of explanatory frameworks in literary studies, and his work has focused on the interface between literary and linguistic theory and modern philosophy of language," the plays of Harold Pinter, and related topics in modern drama and theatre. [1] When he became Dean of Columbia College in 1995, he had completed writing Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literary Studies, in which "he explores the capacity of theory to clarify the unexpected rather than confirm the presupposed," [1] which was published by Yale University Press in 2004.

Selected bibliography

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Quigley Named Columbia College Dean", Columbia University Record 20.30 (May 1995). Columbia University, 26 May 1995. Web. 8 Feb. 2009.[ dead link ]
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Austin E. Quigley" Archived June 24, 2010, at the Wayback Machine . 2008 Alexander Hamilton Medal honoree biography. Alumni News. Columbia College of Columbia University. Web. 7 Feb. 2009.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Lisa Palladino and Ethan Rouen. "Dean Austin Quigley Presented with Hamilton Medal". Columbia College Today, Features. Columbia University, January/February 2009. Web. 7 Feb. 2009.[ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 3 Merritt, Susan Hollis (1990). "Some Other Language Games: Linguistic Parlays and Parleys | The Making of The Pinter Problem". Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter . Durham and London: Duke University Press. pp. 157–160. ISBN   0-8223-1674-9 . Retrieved 2024-04-06– via Internet Archive text collection.
  5. ↑ "Faculty Profiles | Patricia Denison". Barnard College. Archived from the original on 2024-04-06. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
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