Katharine Gilbert

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Katharine Everett Gilbert (1886–1952) was an American philosopher who specialized in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. She was a founding trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics as well as its first woman president. Gilbert was also one of the first women to be president of a division of the American Philosophical Association. She was the first female professor at Duke University and, during her lifetime, the only female chairman of a liberal arts department.

She published four books on her studies, ''Maurice Blondel's Philosophy of Action'' (1924); ''Studies in Recent Aesthetics'' (1927); with Helmut Kuhn, ''A History of Aesthetics'' (1939); and ''Aesthetic Studies: Architecture and Poetry'' (1952). She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree by Brown University in 1942. Provided by Wikipedia