George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

male, deceased (1950)
vegetarian, Playwright, teetotaller, Literary critic, oscar, literarycriticism
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856-2 November 1950) was an Irish dramatist, literary critic, and socialist. During his career Shaw wrote more than...
Paul de Man

Paul de Man

male, deceased (1983)
Irony theorist, Postmodernism, Johns Hopkins University, Continental philosopher, philosopher, Literary critic…literarycriticism, Literary theory
Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 - December 21, 1983) was a Belgian-born deconstructionist literary critic and theorist. He completed his Ph.D. at...
Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Duke University, theorist, comparative literature, Postmodernism, Literary critic, Duke University faculty…Literary theory, literarycriticism
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

male, 59 years old
George Polk Award recipient, Harvard University, American, piedmont, African-American studies scholar, West Virginia writer…literarycriticism, Literary critic
Gates is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at...
William Hazlitt

William Hazlitt

male, deceased (1830)
Protestant, George I, From Maidstone, County Antrim, English, tipperary…literarycriticism
William Hazlitt (10 April 1778 - 18 September 1830) was an English writer remembered for his humanistic essays and literary criticism, often...
Robert Pinsky

Robert Pinsky

male, 69 years old
The Inferno of Dante, The Colbert Report, dante, American Poet Laureate, Czeslaw Milosz, Little Girl in the Big Ten…literarycriticism, Literary critic
Robert Pinsky is the author of six books of poetry including The Figured Wheel: New and Collected Poems 1966-1996 , which won the Lenore Marshall...
George Steiner

George Steiner

male, 80 years old
American, Jewish person, Prince of Asturias Award winner, French, literarycriticism, Literary critic
(Francis) George Steiner (born April 23, 1929, in Paris, France) is a prominent literary critic.
Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter

female, 68 years old
Toward a Feminist Poetics, Man Booker International Prize, hysteria, modern language association, Victorian literature, feminist literary criticism…Literary critic, literarycriticism
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the...
Hayden White

Hayden White

male
tropes, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz faculty, causality, University of California, Santa Cruz, comparative literature…literarycriticism
Hayden White (1928-) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work "Metahistory: The Historical...
Barbara Johnson

Barbara Johnson

female, 62 years old
Harvard University, poststructuralist, Yale school, Oberlin College alumni, American, structuralist…literarycriticism, Literary critic
Barbara Johnson is an American literary critic and translator. She is currently a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Frederic...