LC control no. | n 88298598 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PS3551.L3494 |
Personal name heading | Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- |
Associated country | United States |
Associated place | New Haven (Conn.) |
Located | Washington (D.C.) |
Birth date | 1962-05-30 |
Place of birth | Harlem (New York, N.Y.) New York (N.Y.) |
Field of activity | Poetry African Americans--Study and teaching African American studies |
Affiliation | Yale University Boston University University of Pennsylvania University of Chicago Smith College |
Profession or occupation | Poets College teachers Authors Social reformers University and college faculty members Literature teachers |
Found in | The Venus Hottentot, 1990: CIP t.p. (Elizabeth Alexander) Antebellum dream book, c2001: t.p. (Elizabeth Alexander) Academy of American Poets, viewed Dec. 13, 2001: personal page (Elizabeth Alexander; b. 1962 in New York and grew up in Washington, D.C.; presently a Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University) African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 19, 2014: (Alexander, Elizabeth; poet, social reformer, educator; born 30 May 1962 in Harlem, New York, United States; raised in Washington, D.C; BA, Yale University (1984), MA, Boston University (1987); PhD, University of Pennsylvania (1992); assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago (1991-1997); National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship (1992); the first director of the Poetry Center, Smith College (1997); adjunct associate professor at Yale University's African American Studies Department (1999); won the first Jackson Prize for Poetry, awarded by Poets & Writers (2007); composed and delivered the poem "Praise Song for the Day" for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in 2009; chair of Yale's African American Studies Department (2011)) |
Associated language | eng |