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Hirsch, E.D., Jr. 1928- (Eric Donald Hirsch, Jr.)

PERSONAL:

Born March 22, 1928, in Memphis, TN; son of Eric Donald (a businessperson) and Leah Hirsch; married Mary Pope, 1958; children: John, Frederick, Elizabeth. Education:Cornell University, B.A., 1950; Yale University, M.A., 1955, Ph.D., 1957.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Charlottesville, VA. Office—University of Virginia, Curry School of Education, P.O. Box 400261, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4261. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Yale University, New Haven, CT, instructor, 1956-60, assistant professor, 1960-63, associate professor of English, 1963-66; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, professor, 1966-72, William R. Kenan Professor of English, 1973-84, chair of English department, 1968-71, 1981-82, director of composition, 1971—, Linden Kent Memorial Professor of English, 1989—. Member of faculty, Northwestern University, School of Criticism and Theory, summer, 1981; Bateson Lecturer, Oxford University, 1983. New York Regent's Competency Tests in Writing, national advisory council member, 1979; Coalition for Core Curriculum, president, 1989; Cultural Literacy Foundation, trustee, founder and president 1986—; U.S. Department of Education, Research Advisory Board member; Albert Shanker Institute, director, 1997

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E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

E. D. Hirsch, Jr., is the author of numerous books, including the bestsellers Cultural Literacy, and The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy. Other books by E. D. Hirsch on related subjects are: The First Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, and the Core Knowledge Series: What Your First - Sixth Grader Needs to Know, The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them, and most recently, The Making of Americans. These works have influenced recent educational thought and practice in the United States and other countries. Mr. Hirsch is a graduate of Cornell University, and holds masters and doctoral degrees from Yale University. He began his teaching career at Yale, specializing in Romantic Poetry and Literary Theory, and in 1966 became Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he served twice as chairman of his department. Before his retirement in 2000 he held the position of University Professor of Education and Humanities. In 1977, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1997 to the International Academy of Education. He is the recipient of several honorary degrees, has been a Fulbright and a
Guggenheim fellow, a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, a Humanities Fellow at P