Emily Grosholz

Emily Grosholz is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy, African American Studies and English and a member of the Center for Fundamental Theory and the Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos at Pennsylvania State University. She was educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, where she received her PhD in Philosophy. She has published eight books of poetry, most recently The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems (2017). She has also published six books of philosophy (along with six edited collections), including Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology (2016), which won the Fernando Gil Prize in 2017, which honors a work of particular excellence in philosophy of science. Her book Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry (2018) brings both aspects of her creative life together.