Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University

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The Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University is a prestigious endowed chair in the English department historically held by distinguished scholars and writers in the fields of rhetoric, oratory, and literature.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic position
endowed chair
professorship
academicDiscipline English literature
oratory
rhetoric
country United States of America
surface form: United States

United States of America
employer Harvard University
endowmentType endowed chair
field English
oratory
rhetoric
focus study and teaching of literature
study and teaching of oratory
study and teaching of rhetoric
hasAcademicRank full professor
hasNotableAssociation American literary studies
American rhetoric
poetry
public speaking
hasNotableHolder Douglas Bush
Edward Tyrrel Channing
Francis James Child
George Lyman Kittredge
James Engell
John Quincy Adams
Jorie Graham
Louis Menand
Marlon Ross
Seamus Heaney
Stephen Greenblatt
Walter Jackson Bate
institution Harvard University
isEndowed true
isOneOf oldest chairs in English at Harvard University
isPrestigious true
isProfessorshipIn Harvard University Department of English
surface form: Department of English at Harvard University
isTenuredPosition true
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedIn Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University
namedAfter Nicholas Boylston
partOf Harvard University Department of English
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
surface form: Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
sector higher education
selectionCriteria distinguished creative writing or criticism
distinguished scholarship in rhetoric, oratory, or literature

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Seamus Heaney positionHeld Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
Edward Tyrrel Channing positionHeld Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
Archibald MacLeish positionHeld Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University
Francis James Child positionHeld Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University