Judith Butler

Judith Butler

female, 53 years old
lesbian, philosopher, state violence, From Cleveland, Jewish person, zionist…Literature educator, comparativeliterature
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American post-structuralist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory,...
Richard Rorty

Richard Rorty

male, deceased (2007) (Stanford, California, United States)
Irony theorist, philosophy, Analytic philosopher, pragmatist, American, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature…comparativeliterature, Professor of Comparative Literature
Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher. Rorty's long and diverse career saw him working in Philosophy, Humanities, and Literature...
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Duke University, theorist, comparativeliterature, Postmodernism, Literary critic, Duke University faculty…The Program in Literature
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

male, 75 years old
University of Nevada, Las Vegas faculty, Alumni of the University of Leeds, University of Lagos, Nobel laureate in Literature, comparativeliterature, Abeokuta…nobel prize in literature, english literature
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished...

Robert Alter

male
bible, University of California, Berkeley, The Five Books of Moses, pentateuch, biblical, comparativeliterature
Robert Alter is a Biblical scholar and professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has...
Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi

male, 58 years old
Iranian literary critic, Literary historian, Postcolonialism, postcolonial, Shi'a Islam, from Ahvaz…comparativeliterature, Persian literature
Hamid Dabashi presents a comprehensive, passionate, and insightful personal account on the evolution of Iranian art cinema in Close Up - Iranian...
Robert Fagles

Robert Fagles

male, 76 years old (Princeton, New Jersey, United States)
Yale University, academia, Master's Degree, English, Assistant Professor, Doctor of Philosophy…comparativeliterature
Robert Fagles (born September 11, 1933) is an American professor, poet, and academic, best known for his many translations of ancient Greek...
Michael Dirda

Michael Dirda

male, 61 years old
Cornell University, Readings Essays and Literary Entertainments, An Open Book Coming of Age in the Heartland, comparativeliterature, Fulbright Fellowship, Ph.D.
Michael Dirda (born 1948), a Fulbright Fellowship recipient, is an award-winning book critic for the "Washington Post". Having studied at Oberlin...
Erich Auerbach

Erich Auerbach

male, deceased (1957)
Jewish, Yale University, professor, comparative scholar, German, World War I…comparativeliterature
Erich Auerbach (November 9, 1892 in Berlin - October 13, 1957 in Wallingford, Connecticut) was a German philologist and comparative scholar and...
Haun Saussy

Haun Saussy

male, 49 years old (San Francisco, California, United States)
Bird White Housum, Alpha of Connecticut, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Connecticut, phi beta kappa, Harvard University, From Tennessee…comparativeliterature, American Comparative Literature Association, Chinese literature
Caleb Powell Haun Saussy (b. 1960) is the Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative and Chinese literature at Yale University. Saussy's first...