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Christopher Benfey | |
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| Born | October 28, 1954 (1954-10-28) (age 71) Merion, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Subject | Emily Dickinson |
| Notable works | Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington |
Christopher Benfey (born October 28, 1954) is an American literary critic andEmily Dickinson scholar. He is the Mellon Professor of English atMount Holyoke College.
Benfey was born inMerion, Pennsylvania,[citation needed] but spent most of his childhood inRichmond, Indiana.[1] and attendedThe Putney School.[2] His father was aGerman immigrant and his mother was fromNorth Carolina.[1] He began his undergraduate studies atEarlham College,[2] where his father,Otto Theodor Benfey, was a professor in the Chemistry department,[1] and completed his B.A. atGuilford College.[2] Benfey holds a Ph.D. inComparative Literature fromHarvard University.[2]
Benfey is a specialist in 19th and 20th centuryAmerican literature. He is also an established essayist and critic who has been published inThe Atlantic,[3]The New York Times Sunday Book Review,The New Republic,The New York Review of Books, andTheTimes Literary Supplement. He was an art critic forSlate.[4]
He is theAndrew W. Mellon Professor of English atMount Holyoke College, where he has taught since 1989.[2] He is aGuggenheim Fellow,[5] as well as a fellow of theNational Endowment for the Humanities.[5]
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