Robert Scholes

male
State University of New York at Purchase, science fiction studies, Suny Purchase, Modern Language Association of America, modernlanguageassociation, Science Fiction History, Science, Vision
Robert E. Scholes is an American literary critic and theorist. He is known for his ideas on fabulation and metafiction. He graduated from Yale...
Marjorie Perloff

Marjorie Perloff

female
Stanford University, emerita, avant garde, Literary critic, professor, Vienna Paradox…modernlanguageassociation, president of the Modern Language Association
Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is best known for her...
Elaine Showalter

Elaine Showalter

female, 68 years old
Toward a Feminist Poetics, Man Booker International Prize, hysteria, modernlanguageassociation, Victorian literature, feminist literary criticism…Hystories Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media
Elaine Showalter (born January 21, 1941) is an American literary critic, feminist, and writer on cultural and social issues. She is one of the...

Linda Hutcheon

female
university of toronto, Feminist, Canadian, Academic, Postmodernism, modernlanguageassociation
Linda Hutcheon is a Canadian academic, literary theorist, and feminist. She is University Professor in the Department of English and of the Centre...

Florence Howe

female
Smith College, Hunter College High School, modernlanguageassociation, Feminist Press
Florence Howe, American author, publisher, literary scholar and historian, was a nationally recognised leader of the contemporary feminist...
Mary Ann Caws

Mary Ann Caws

female, 76 years old
Tristan Tzara, American Comparative Literature Association, Academy of Literary Studies, To the Boathouse a memoir, Manifestos - Isms, Robert Desnos…modern english, early modern English, modernlanguageassociation, Modern Language Association of America
Mary Ann Caws is an American author, art historian and literary critic. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of English, French and...
Houston A. Baker Jr.

Houston A. Baker Jr.

male, 66 years old
american literature, booker t, modernlanguageassociation, From Louisville, Kentucky, American, ophelia…Modern Language Association of America
Houston A. Baker Jr. (born March 22, 1943 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an African American literature scholar, currently serving as a Distinguished...
Eric Lott

Eric Lott

male, 50 years old
American Quarterly, transition, village voice, the nation, blackface, minstrelsy…modernlanguageassociation
Eric Lott (b. 1959) is an American Professor of English and social historian. Lott received his Ph. D. in 1991 from Columbia University. He has...
Luci Tapahonso

Luci Tapahonso

female, 56 years old
navajo, poet, writer, MacArthur Fellow, Native American, American…Association of American Indian, modernlanguageassociation
Luci Tapahonso is a Navajo (Diné) poet and lecturer in Native American Studies.

Kemp Malone

male
Johns Hopkins University, Middle English, Oral literature, American College Dictionary, Caedmon, oral tradition…modernlanguageassociation
Kemp Malone (Minter, Mississippi, March 14, 1889-October 13, 1971) was a prolific medievalist, etymologist, philologist, and specialist in Chaucer...