Monica Heller [SEP] date of birth
Monica Heller
Monica Heller (born June 1955) is a Canadian linguistic anthropologist and Professor at the University of Toronto. She was the President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) from 2013 to 2015.
Biography.
Heller was born in 1955, in Montreal, Quebec. Her father was a neurologist and her mother a medical sociologist. The political meanings of the uses of French and English in Quebec in the 1960s led to her interest in language and its influence on society. She attended Swarthmore College in Swarthmore
number of thinkers of his day, whose names include (in the chronological order of the date of birth, not necessarily in the order of the respective correspondents’ importance) the following.
- Thomas Mann
- E. M. Forster
- T. S. Eliot –– who is repeatedly taken to task in "The Disinherited Mind" for what Heller considers to be egregious lapses of literary judgement
- Conrad Aiken
- Moriz Seeler –– whose letters to Heller include some of Moriz Seeler's rare poetic compositions
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