Daily News | Hugh H. Grady Jr., Shakespearian scholar at Arcadia, English professor emeritus, author, and political activist, has died at 74
Curious and collegial, he won Arcadia’s Ellington Beavers Faculty Award for intellectual inquiry in 1990 and 2004, was professor of the year for 2001-02, and was awarded a 2004 summer research stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.Dr. Grady’s “dedication to teaching, his extraordinary scholarship in the field of literature, and his years of service to Arcadia.” Dr.
Born Oct. 6, 1947, in Savannah, Ga., Dr. Grady graduated from Benedictine Military School and earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Fordham University. He went to Paris for his junior year of college and — witnessing the French demonstrations against capitalism, consumerism, and traditional institutions — later became active in Fordham’s chapter of Students for a Democratic Society and supported left-wing progressive policies for the rest of his life.
Dr. Grady received a master’s degree in English and a doctorate in comparative literature from the University of Texas at Austin. They lived in Louisville, Ky., and Detroit, and he was immersed in Shakespeare’s iambic pentameter as senior assistant editor for Gale Research publications.