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|footnotes = <ref name=CURecord>[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol20/vol20_iss30/record2030.13.html "Quigley Named Columbia College Dean"], ''Columbia University Record'' 20.30 (May 1995). [[Columbia University]], 26 May 1995. [[World Wide Web|Web]]. 8 Feb. 2009.{{Dead link|date=April 2024}}</ref><ref name=Honoree>[http://www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/events/hamiltondinner/honoree "Austin E. Quigley"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100624200650/http://www.college.columbia.edu/alumni/events/hamiltondinner/honoree |date=June 24, 2010 }}. 2008 [[Alexander Hamilton]] Medal honoree biography. ''Alumni'' News. [[Columbia College of Columbia University]]. [[World Wide Web|Web]]. 7 Feb. 2009.</ref><ref name=PalladinoRouen>Lisa Palladino and Ethan Rouen. [http://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/jan_feb09/features "Dean Austin Quigley Presented with Hamilton Medal"]. ''Columbia College Today'', Features. [[Columbia University]], January/February 2009. [[World Wide Web|Web]]. 7 Feb. 2009.{{Dead link|date=April 2024}}</ref>
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'''Austin Edmund Quigley''' (born December 31, 1942) is the former [[Dean (education)|Dean]] of [[Columbia College of Columbia University]], Lucy G. Moses Professor, and [[Brander Matthews]] Professor of [[Drama|Dramatic Literature]] at [[Columbia University]], in [[New York City]], and the recipient of the 2008 [[Alexander Hamilton]] Medal, Columbia College's highest honor.<ref name=Honoree/><ref name=PalladinoRouen/> He is also a member of the [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] Center for Theatre Studies<ref name=Honoree/> and of the Columbia University Doctoral Program Subcommittee on Theatre, has served on the editorial boards of ''[[Modern Drama (journal)|Modern Drama]]'', ''[[New Literary History]]'', ''[[Harold Pinter and academia#Harold Pinter Society|The Pinter Review]]''.

==Personal history and education==
Austin E. Quigley was born the second of five children, to school teachers Edmund and Marguerita Quigley, on December 31, 1942, in [[Northumberland]], in Northern [[England]], and later moved to the area of [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]].<ref name=Honoree/><ref name=MerrittPinP/> He earned a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in [[English literature]] at the [[University of Nottingham]] in 1967, a [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in [[Linguistics|Modern Linguistics]] at [[Birmingham University]], in 1969, and, after moving to the [[United States]] in 1969, a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in English and [[Comparative literature|Comparative Literature]] and [[Literary Theory]] at the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], in 1971, where he was the recipient of a [[Danforth Fellowship]].<ref name=CURecord/><ref name=Honoree/><ref name=MerrittPinP>{{cite book |title=Pinter in Play: Critical Strategies and the Plays of Harold Pinter |first=Susan Hollis |last=Merritt |chapter=Some Other Language Games: Linguistic Parlays and Parleys {{!}} The Making of ''The Pinter Problem'' |pages=157–160 |year=1990 |publisher=[[Duke University Press]] |location=Durham and London |isbn=0-8223-1674-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/pinterinplaycrit0000merr/mode/2up?q=Quigley |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pinterinplaycrit0000merr/page/156/mode/2up?q=The+Making+of+the+Pinter+Problem |access-date=2024-04-06 |via=[[Internet Archive#Text collection|Internet Archive text collection]] |url-access=limited}}</ref> In 1975, a revised version of his doctoral dissertation, "The Dynamics of Dialogue: A Study of the Plays of Harold Pinter", was published by [[Princeton University Press]] as his first book, ''The Pinter Problem''.<ref name=CURecord/><ref name=MerrittPinP/>

Before he became an academic, Quigley's "first ambition was a career in professional [[football (soccer)|soccer]], and he played as a teenager for the junior team of one of England's premier clubs, [[Newcastle United]]," and also played "varsity soccer for Nottingham University and while a student there was selected to represent the county of [[Nottinghamshire]]."<ref name=CURecord/>

Denison lives in New York with his wife, Patricia D. Denison, a senior lecturer in English at Columbia University's [[Barnard College]].<ref name=Honoree/><ref name=PalladinoRouen/><ref>{{cite web |title=Faculty Profiles {{!}} Patricia Denison |publisher=[[Barnard College]] |url=https://barnard.edu/profiles/patricia-denison |access-date=2024-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240406214920/https://barnard.edu/profiles/patricia-denison |archive-date=2024-04-06 |url-status=live}}</ref> The couple have four children together: Laura, Rebecca, Caroline, and Catherine.<ref name=Honoree/><ref name=PalladinoRouen/>

==Academic career==
Quigley's first teaching position was at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]], in [[Amherst, Massachusetts]], where he worked for two years before moving to the [[University of Virginia]], where he chaired the English department before leaving to become H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature at [[Columbia University]] in 1990.<ref name=CURecord/> He also held visiting appointments at the [[University of Geneva]], in [[Switzerland]]; the [[University of Konstanz]], in [[Germany]]; and the [[University of Nottingham]], in [[England]].<ref name=CURecord/><ref name=Honoree/>

In addition to helping to found the undergraduate major in [[Drama]] and [[Theatre]] at Columbia University and Barnard College, he also reconstructed and renewed "the Ph.D. and M.F.A. programs in theater."<ref name=CURecord/> He became associate director of the Columbia University [[Oscar Hammerstein II]] Center for Theatre Studies in 1992 and chairman of the [[Lionel Trilling]] Seminars in 1993.<ref name=CURecord/>

At the end of the 2008–09 academic year, after a term of 14 years, Quigley plans to resign from his posts as Dean of Columbia College and Lucy G. Moses Professor; beginning in academic year 2009–10, he will "continue to teach at Columbia and conduct research as the [[Brander Matthews]] Professor of Dramatic Literature and also will serve as special adviser to the president [of Columbia University] for undergraduate education."<ref name=PalladinoRouen/>

His scholarly and critical specialities explore "the nature and status of explanatory frameworks in literary studies, and his work has focused on the interface between literary and linguistic theory and modern philosophy of language," the plays of [[Harold Pinter]], and related topics in modern [[drama]] and [[theatre]].<ref name=CURecord/> When he became Dean of Columbia College in 1995, he had completed writing ''Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literary Studies'', in which "he explores the capacity of theory to clarify the unexpected rather than confirm the presupposed,"<ref name=CURecord/> which was published by [[Yale University Press]] in 2004.

==Selected bibliography==
;Articles and parts of books
*"Creativity and Commitment in Trevor Griffith's Comedians". ''[[Modern Drama (journal)|Modern Drama]]'' 24 (1981): 404–23.
*"''The Dumb Waiter'': Undermining the Tacit Dimension". ''[[Modern Drama (journal)|Modern Drama]]'' 21 (1978): 1–11.
*"Pinter, Politics and Postmodernism (I)". 7–27 in ''The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter''. Ed. and introd. Peter Raby. Cambridge, Eng., and New York: [[Cambridge University Press|Cambridge UP]], 2001. {{ISBN|0-521-65842-X}} (10). {{ISBN|978-0-521-65842-3}} (13).

;Books
*''The Modern Stage and Other Worlds''. New York: [[Methuen Publishing|Methuen]], 1985. 221–52. {{ISBN|0-416-39320-9}} (10). {{ISBN|978-0-416-39320-0}} (13).
*''The Pinter Problem''. Princeton: [[Princeton University Press|Princeton UP]], 1975. {{ISBN|0-691-06281-1}} (10). {{ISBN|978-0-691-06281-5}} (13).
*''Theoretical Inquiry: Language, Linguistics, and Literature''. New Haven: [[Yale University Press|Yale UP]], 2004. {{ISBN|0-300-10166-X}} (10). {{ISBN|978-0-300-10166-9}} (13).

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==External links==
*[https://english.columbia.edu/content/austin-e-quigley Columbia University Faculty Profile].

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