Emily Grosholz

From September 2011 through January 2012, she was a senior researcher in REHSEIS / SPHERE / CNRS and University of Paris Diderot - Paris 7, with a 'Research in Paris 2011' grant from the city of Paris.

Emily Rolfe Grosholz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 17, 1950, and was raised in the suburbs of the city. She graduated from the University of Chicago, with a B.A. in 1972, and Yale University with a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1978. Grosholz was a 1988 Guggenheim Fellow. She held National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships in 1985 and in 2004, and American Council of Learned Societies fellowships in 1982 and 1997. She served as an advisory editor for the Hudson Review from 1984. Grosholz was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas from 1998, a member of the editorial board of Studia Leibnitiana from 2002, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics from 2010. She was a member of the Directive Committee of the Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. Grosholz was married to the medievalist Robert R. Edwards, with whom she had four children. She died at her home on May 2, 2026, at the age of 75.

• Great Circles, Springer, 2018, (eBook)

• The River Painter, University of Illinois Press, 1984, • Shores and Headlands, Princeton University Press, 1988, • Eden, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992, * • Feuilles; Huit poèmes: Edition bilingue français-anglais, with Farhad Ostovani, William Blake And Co, 2009, • Beginning and End of the Snow, Bucknell University Press, 2012, (English Translation of Yves Bonnefoy Debut et fin de la Neige, Mercure de France; with drawings by Farhad Ostovani) • Proportions of the Heart: Poems that Play with Mathematics, Tessellations Publishing, 2014, (with mathematical artwork by Robert Fathauer) • Childhood, Accents Publishing, 2014, (with drawings by Lucy Vines), translated to Yoruba language in 2021 by Kola Tubosun • The Stars of Earth: New and Selected Poems, Word Galaxy Press, 2017,

• Emily Grosholz, James Stewart and Bernard Bell (Eds), W. E. B. Du Bois on Race and Culture, Routledge, 1996, • Emily Grosholz (Ed), Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin, University Press of New England, 1997, • Emily Grosholz and Herbert Breger (Eds), The Growth of Mathematical Knowledge, Kluwer, 1999, • Emily Grosholz (Ed), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Oxford University Press, 2004 / 2008, • Emily Grosholz, Carlo Cellucci and Emiliano Ippoliti (Eds), Logic and Knowledge, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, • Emily Grosholz (Ed), Studia Leibnitiana, Band 44, Heft 1 (2012), Franz Steiner Verlag, ISSN 0039-3185 (Special issue on Leibniz, Time and History)