Discipline: Literature

Aileen Ward

Discipline: Literature
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1981
More: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aileen_Ward
Aileen Ward (1919–2016), professor of English literature, won both a National Book Award in 1964 and a Duff Cooper Memorial Prize in 1963 for her book John Keats: The Making of a Poet, on which she spent nine years of research. After earning a B.A. in English from Smith College in 1940, she enrolled in Radcliffe College, where she was awarded her M.A. in 1942 and a doctorate in 1953. Her dissertation was on poetic metaphor. Professor Ward taught at Wellesley and Barnard. She joined the Vassar English department in 1954. Later in her career Ward taught at Sarah Lawrence, Brandeis, and New York University, and retired in 1990.

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Heyward

Aileen Ward worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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