Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht ( born November 23, 1965 in Glen Cove, Long Iceland, New York) is an American historian of philosophy, university teacher and writer.

Life

Hecht completed her studies first at the Adelphi University, graduating in 1995 with a doctorate in history at Columbia University in New York City from. In addition, she completed a few semesters at the Université de Caen and Université d' Angers. At the New York Institute for the Humanities is licensed her Fellow status as a researcher. As a high school teacher, she is active in the Graduate Writing Program at New York University The New School, where she teaches Creative Writing in Poetry and Philosophy. As an essayist and literary critic she has, inter alia, in the New York Times, The Washington Post and "The American Scholar " published. As a columnist, she worked in " Happy Days " and " Times Select" for the New York Times.

Works (selection)

• The Next Ancient World. Tupelo Press, 2001 ISBN 978-0971031005 ( poetry)
• The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France. Columbia University Press, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0231128469
• Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson. HarperOne, San Francisco, 2003. ISBN 978-0060097721 Dúvida: uma História, 2005 ( translation into Portuguese / Brazilian )

Awards (selection)

• 2001 Poetry Book of the Year Award from ForeWord Magazine for The Next Ancient World
• 2001 Tupelo Press Judge's Prize for The Next Ancient World
• 2002 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America's Next for The Ancient World
• 2004 Ralph Waldo Emerson - Prize of Phi Beta Kappa Society for The End of the Soul
• 2005 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry for Funny