Achsah Guibbory

Background

Guibbory, Achsah was born on June 30, 1945 in Norwalk, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Moses and Bathyah (Rasmussen) Guibbory.

Education

After studying at Indiana University, which awarded her a Bachelor in 1966, Guibbory gained both an Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, completing her studies in 1970.

Career

Her primary areas of focus are seventeenth century literature, religious history, and the works of both John Donne and John Milton. She has served as president of both the John Donne Society and the Milton Society of America. She then moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign as an assistant professor, and became a full professor in 1989.

Her publications at Illinois included The Map of Time: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Ideas of Pattern in History in 1986 and Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century English Literature in 1998.

In 2004, having spent a year there as a visiting professor, Guibbory moved to Barnard College to take up a position as the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English. During her time at Barnard she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and published The Cambridge Companion to John Donne in 2006.

In 2010 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Iona College.

Achievements

• Achsah Guibbory has been listed as a notable English educator, writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion and Cultural Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England

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  • (The Cambridge Companion to John Donne) Author: Achsah Guibbory published on (February, 2006)

Membership

Member of Modern Language Association (executive committee 17th Century English Literature division 1999—2003), John Donne Society (vice president 1996, president 1997, Distinguished Publication award 1992, 1994), Milton Society of America (executive committee 1991-1993, vice president 2000, president 2001).

Connections

Married Anthony Daughter of Kaufman, June 11, 1972. 1 child, Gabriel Benjamin.

Father:

Moses Guibbory

Father:

Kaufman Guibbory

Mother:

Bathyah (Rasmussen) Guibbory

Spouse:

Anthony Daughter of Kaufman

child:

Gabriel Benjamin Guibbory