15 Facts About Cecelia Tichi

Cecelia Tichi was born on April 10,1942 and is an American academic and author of mystery novels.

Cecelia Tichi is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University.

Cecelia Tichi is a former president of the American Studies Association, and the winner of the Jay B Hubbell Medal for lifetime achievement in American literature.

Cecelia Tichi was the Editor of Special Issue of South Atlantic Quarterly in 1995.

Cecelia Tichi studied English Literature and received her bachelor's degree in 1964 from Pennsylvania State University and her master's degree in 1965 from Johns Hopkins University.

Cecelia Tichi joined Boston University in 1968 as an assistant professor.

Cecelia Tichi was promoted to associate professor in 1975, and to Professor, in 1980.

In 1987, Cecelia Tichi joined Vanderbilt University as an English Professor.

Cecelia Tichi has conducted research related to English Literature and has authored several fiction and non-fiction books based on American popular culture and social history.

Cecelia Tichi published her book New World, New Earth: Environmental Reform in American Literature from the Puritans through Whitman in 1979.

Cecelia Tichi stated that "the book is gracefully written, jargon-free, highly original, and engaging throughout" and "Tichi's astonishing interdisciplinary imagination enables her to bridge the gaps between popular culture and high art, music and literature, poetry and painting".

In 2001, Cecelia Tichi published Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places which examines the human body's connection with the American geographical experience.

Cecelia Tichi's work is reviewed as "a quietly eloquent intervention in contemporary critical practice".

In 2009, Cecelia Tichi published Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America which revolves around profiling seven citizen activists and reformers of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Daniel Burnstein reviewed that "Cecelia Tichi provides an excellent broad introduction to many aspects of that era and the Gilded Age that preceded it" and that the book "is an accurate and thoughtful synthesis, steeped in impressive research in both primary and secondary sources".