Mary Carruthers

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Mary J. Carruthers (born January 15, 1941) is Remarque Professor Emeritus of English at New York University. [1] [2] She also teaches at New York University Abu Dhabi. [3] She is formerly a professor at Smith College, University of Illinois, [2] and Case Western Reserve University. [4]

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She has written widely on medieval literature and rhetoric, memory and mnemonic techniques, and the history of spirituality.

She holds a Ph.D. in English from Yale University (1965), and a B.A. in English from Wellesley College (1961).

In 2012, Carruthers was elected to the British Academy. [5]

She gave the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography in 2017: "Cognitive Geometries: Using Diagrams in the Middle Ages."

She was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 [6] and to the American Philosophical Society in 2022. [7]

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