Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom

male, 79 years old
professor, Cornell University alumni, Shakespeare academia, from New York City, Berg Professor, Literary critic…literary criticism, Literary, LiterarycriticofEnglish, cultural critic, in a state of spiritual discomfort
Harold Bloom (b. July 11 1930) is an American professor and prominent literary and cultural critic. Bloom defended 19th-century Romantic poets at a...
Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi

female, 54 years old
Iranian women writer, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books, Ph.D., LiterarycriticofEnglish, Academic
Azar Nafisi, Ph.D. (born December 1955) is an Iranian professor and writer who currently resides in the United States. Nafisi's bestselling book...
Christopher Benfey

Christopher Benfey

male
LiterarycriticofEnglish, mount holyoke college, Harvard University alumni, Academic, Mount Holyoke College faculty, Mellon Professor of English…Literary critic, American Council of Learned Societies, co-director of the Weissman Center
Christopher Benfey has emerged over the past decade as a prolific critic, essayist, and author, whose reviews in the New York Times Sunday Book...
Mary Fair Burks

Mary Fair Burks

female, deceased (1991)
African Americans' rights activist, social justice, LiterarycriticofEnglish, community organizing, montgomery bus boycott, President of organizations
Mary Fair Burks was an educator, scholar, and civil rights activist from Montgomery, Alabama. She was head of the English department at Alabama...

Randall Bass

male
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Georgetown University, LiterarycriticofEnglish, provost, Associate Professor, Randall (Randy) Bass
Randall (Randy) Bass is Associate Professor of English and Assistant Provost at Georgetown University. Noted expert in the Scholarship of Teaching...
Felicity Riddy

Felicity Riddy

female
professor, British, auckland university, Academic, LiterarycriticofEnglish, Literary critic…University of York, Academic of the University of York
Professor Felicity Riddy is an academic, author and specialist in Arthurian literature. Educated at Auckland University, New Zealand and Oxford,...

Michael Cordner

male
professor, Academic of the University of York, University of York, Literary critic, LiterarycriticofEnglish, editor
Professor Michael Cordner, academic, author and specialist in theatre and drama. His particular interests lie in English drama c.1580-1720 and in...
Joel Porte

Joel Porte

male, deceased (2006)
Harvard University, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, Cornell University faculty, ancient greek, Harvard University alumni…LiterarycriticofEnglish, Literary critic, literary criticism, English, Literary scholar
Joel Miles Porte was an American literary scholar, who was an internationally renowned authority on the life and work of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Porte...