Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

male, 75 years old
Duke University, theorist, comparative literature, Postmodernism, Literary critic, Duke University faculty…Marxist theorist
Fredric Jameson (born April 14, 1934) is a literary critic and Marxist political theorist. He is best known for the analysis of contemporary...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

male, deceased (1832)
Farbenlehre, theology, Elective Affinities, bildungsroman, Autobiographer, epistolary novel…theorist
"'"',, (28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832) was a German polymath. Goethe's works span the fields of poetry, drama, literature, theology, Humanism,...
Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

male, deceased (1944)
emigrant, printmaker, World War I, abstract, Alumni and faculty of Moscow State University, theorist
Wassily Kandinsky (– December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is cr...
Paul de Man

Paul de Man

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

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

female, 67 years old
Indian women writer, Indian, Cornell University alumni, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, University Professor, bengali…theorist
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (born February 24 1942) is a literary critic and theorist. She is best-known for the article "Can the Subaltern Speak?",...
N. Katherine Hayles

N. Katherine Hayles

female, 65 years old (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
English, Media Arts, English studies, University of California, Los Angeles, design, University of California, Los Angeles faculty…theorist
N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 -) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of "How We Became Posthuman:...
Hélène Cixous

Hélène Cixous

female, 72 years old
Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune saint juif, French women writer, Prix Médicis, Sephardi, postmodernist, agregation…theorist
Hélène Cixous, is a professor, French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Hélène Cixous was born in O...
Stephen Greenblatt

Stephen Greenblatt

male, 66 years old (Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States)
new york times best seller list, Will in the World, Harvard University faculty, from Cambridge, Massachusetts, New Historicism, REPRESENTATIONS…theorist
Stephen Jay Greenblatt (born November 7, 1943) is a literary critic, theorist and scholar. Greenblatt is regarded by many as one of the founders of...
Ernest Mandel

Ernest Mandel

male, deceased (1995)
Trotskyist, theorist, Jewish, German, World War II, Cold War…Marxist theorist
Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. (April 5, 1923 - July 20,...

John Young

male
Literary theorist, Northwestern University, Marshall University, Literary theory, theorist
John Young is a literary theorist and assistant professor of English at Marshall University. Young received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University....