| | 1 | Name: | Dr. Wayne Clayson Booth | | | Institution: | University of Chicago | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402. Criticism: Arts and Letters | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1921 | | | Death Date: | October 10, 2005 | | | | |
| 2 | Name: | Professor Alan Cameron | | | Institution: | Columbia University | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1938 | | | Death Date: | July 31, 2017 | | | | | | |
Alan Cameron was a British classicist and Charles Anthon Professor of the Latin Language and Literature at Columbia University. He taught for nearly 30 years at Columbia, before which time he served for 13 years as lecturer and reader in Latin and professor of Latin Language and Literature at Kings' College London. Dr. Cameron's areas of expertise include Hellenistic and Roman poetry; later Roman literature; Byyzantium; and the transmission of texts. He was awarded the American Philological Association's Goodwin Award of Merit in classical scholarship in 1997 and was honored with the Lionel Trilling Book Award for an outstanding book by a Columbia faculty member for his work Greek Mythography in the Roman World (2004). The latter work traces the beginnings of different versions of myths, including those fabricated in ancient times, while exploring the ways in which ancient Romans learned the myths that pervaded their culture's art. Dr. Cameron's other important works include Porphyrius the Charioteer (1973); Blues and Greens at Rome and Byzantium (1976); and Literature and Society in the Early Byzantine World (1985). He was a member of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. Alan Cameron died July 31, 2017, at the age of 79, in New York. | |
| 3 | Name: | Dr. Wen C. Fong | | | Institution: | Princeton University & Metropolitan Museum of Art | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 404. History of the Arts, Literature, Religion and Sciences | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1930 | | | Death Date: | October 3, 2018 | | | | | | |
A scholar of Chinese art history, Wen Fong was born in Shanghai and received a classical Chinese education, including training as a painter and calligrapher. In 1948 he went to Princeton University, where he earned his A.B. in 1951, joined the faculty as instructor after receiving his M.F.A. in 1954 and earned his Ph.D. in 1958. He was named the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Art History in 1971 and transferred to emeritus status in 1999. He was the author of works including The Problem of Forgeries in Chinese Paintings (1963), Summer Mountains: The Timeless Landscape (1975) and The Great Bronze Age of China (1980) and became widely recognized in both China and Japan through his many books and articles and frequent visits to the Far East. Dr. Fong also served as faculty curator of Asian art at the Princeton University Art Museum and helped strengthen the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Asian collection as a special consultant for Asian affairs and head of the Asian art department. After transferring to emeritus status at Princeton he was a professor at Tsinghua University from 2004-07 and Zheijang University 2009-12. Wen Fong died on October 3, 2018 in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of 88. | |
| 4 | Name: | Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones | | | Institution: | University of Oxford | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 405. History and Philology, East and West, through the 17th Century | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Deceased
| | | Birth Date: | 1922 | | | Death Date: | October 5, 2009 | | | | | | |
Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, formerly Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient Greek literature. A graduate of Oxford (Christ Church), he has taught at Cambridge, Yale, Berkeley, Chicago, and Harvard. He holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Thessalonica, Göttingen. His books include Menandri Dyscolus (1960); The Justice of Zeus (1971); Blood for the Ghosts (1982); Classical Survivals (1982); (with P.J. Parsons) Supplementum Hellenisticum (1983); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclis Fabulae (1990); (with N.G. Wilson) Sophoclea (1990); Academic Papers I (Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy) and II (Greek Comedy, Hellenistic Literature, Greek Religion and Miscellanea) (1990); Greek in a Cold Climate (1991); Sophocles: Second Thoughts (1997); and translations of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Most recently, he completed a new three-volume translation of Sophocles for Harvard's Loeb Classical Library series. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |
| 5 | Name: | Dr. Helen Hennessy Vendler | | | Institution: | Harvard University | | | Year Elected: | 1992 | | | Class: | 4. Humanities | | | Subdivision: | 402a | | | Residency: | Resident | | | Living? : |
Living
| | | Birth Date: | 1933 | | | | | | |
Helen Vendler was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities for her paper presented to the Society at its joint meeting with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. Entitled "Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia: 'Mycenae Lookout' and the Usefulness of Tradition," it is a masterful analysis, not only of the content of the poem, but of the structure of the poetry and how line and meter reflect the emotion the poet seeks to convey. Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she received her Ph.D. in English and American Literature in 1960 (after doing an undergraduate degree in chemistry at Emmanuel College, Boston). Before coming to Harvard, she taught at Cornell, Swarthmore, Haverford, Smith, and Boston University. She has been a frequent lecturer at the Yeats Summer School in Sligo. She has held many fellowships (Guggenheim, Wilson, APS, NEH, etc.) and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The American Academy of Arts & Sciences, the Swedish Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Modern Language Association (of which she was president in 1980). She holds twenty four honorary degrees from universities and colleges here and in Norway (University of Oslo), England (Cambridge) and Ireland (National University of Ireland and Trinity College). Dr. Vendler is the author of Yeats's Vision and the Later Plays (1963), On Extended Wings: The Longer Poems of Wallace Stevens (1969), The Poetry of George Herbert (1975), The Odes of John Keats (1983), Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1986), The Music of What Happens: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1988), Soul Says: On Recent Poetry (1995), The Given and the Made: Lowell, Berryman, Dove, Graham (1995), The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (1995), Poems, Poets, Poetry (1996), The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997), Seamus Heaney (1998) Coming of Age As a Poet (2003), Poets Thinking (2004), Invisible Listeners (2005), and Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007). She also has reviewed contemporary poetry for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The London Review of Books, and other journals, and lectures widely both in the United States and abroad. She delivered the 56th A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in 2007. She was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1992. | |
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