George Alexander Kennedy (born 1928) is a contemporary scholar of classical rhetoric and literature.[1][2]
Kennedy received his Ph.D. in classics from Harvard University in 1954 with a dissertation entitled "PROLEGOMENA AND COMMENTARY TO QUINTILIAN VIII (PR. & 1-3)". Kennedy taught classics, comparative literature, and rhetoric at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for twenty-eight years. He retired as George L. Paddison professor of classics. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. Under President Jimmy Carter and President Ronald Reagan, Kennedy served on the National Council on the Humanities[3] and was also president of the American Philological Association and of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric.[2]
Kennedy has also been the editor of the American Journal of Philology.[2]