Ruth J. Simmons

Ruth J. Simmons

female
Ruth J. Simmons (born 1945 in Grapeland, Texas), is the 18th president of Brown University and first black president of an Ivy League institution....
John Ciardi

John Ciardi

male, deceased
John Anthony Ciardi (June 24, 1916 - March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. John Ciardi was primarily a poet, but he...
Carol T. Christ

Carol T. Christ

female
Carol Tecla Christ (b. 1944) is a scholar of Victorian literature and English Literature in general. She is past editor of the "Norton Anthology of...
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

male
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is a German-born American literary theorist and currently the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of C...
Elaine Tuttle Hansen

Elaine Tuttle Hansen

female
Elaine Tuttle Hansen is the president of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, a position she has held since 2002. Hansen graduated "cum laude", Phi...
Larry McCaffery

Larry McCaffery

male
Larry McCaffery is a literary critic, editor, and professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. McCaffery's work...
Judith Butler

Judith Butler

female
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory,...
Gerhard Rohlfs

Gerhard Rohlfs

male, deceased
Gerhard Rohlfs taught Romance languages and literature at the universities of Tübingen and Munich in Germany. He was described as an "archeologist o...
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Michael Thomas Mann

male, deceased
Michael Thomas Mann (April 21, 1919 - January 1, 1977) was a German-born musician and professor of German literature. He was the youngest child of...