The Most Influential People Across History
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List of the most influential people in Literature,
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Hans Aaraas
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Overall Influence
1919 - 1998 (79 years)
Hans Aaraas was a Norwegian literary researcher. He was born in Skien. He took the mag.art. degree in 1947 and the dr.philos. degree in 1960 with a thesis on Georges Bernanos. He was a lecturer in Norwegian at Sorbonne from 1949 to 1953, lecturer at the University of Oslo from 1956 to 1961 and professor of French literature at the University of Bergen from 1961 to 1986. He was visiting faculty at the University of Washington from 1984 to 1985. He was awarded the Bastian Prize for translation in 1982.
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Jez Butterworth
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Overall Influence
1969 - Present (57 years)
Jeremy "Jez" Butterworth is an English playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He has written screenplays in collaboration with his brothers, John-Henry and Tom. Life and career In March 1969, Butterworth was born in London, England. He has three brothers: older brothers Tom and Steve ; and younger brother John-Henry . He also has a sister, Joanna. He attended Verulam Comprehensive School, St Albans, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he studied the English tripos and graduated in 1991. All his brothers have been active in film and theatre: Steve is a producer, while Tom and John-H...
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E. Christian Kopff
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
E. Christian Kopff is Associate Professor of Classics and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he has taught since 1973. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the CU Committee on Research. He has been a contributor to far-right publications.
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Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
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Overall Influence
1942 - Present (84 years)
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Early life and education Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi is the daughter of Janet and Herman DeKoven. Her mother was a social worker born in Ostrowiec, Poland, who at age 12 immigrated to the United States with her family. Her father was a lawyer born in Chicago, Illinois.
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Muhammad Umar Memon
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Overall Influence
1939 - 2018 (79 years)
Muhammad Umar Memon Professor Emeritus of Urdu Literature and Arabic Studies, , Memon was an accomplished scholar, translator, Urdu Short Story writer, and the editor of The Annual of Urdu Studies. Memon retired from the University of Wisconsin after 38 years of service but remained active as a scholar: besides working on translation of Urdu works into English, he served on the editorial board of Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies and was also an advisor to the Urdu Project.
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Sigmund Skard
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Overall Influence
1903 - 1995 (92 years)
Sigmund Skard was a Norwegian poet, essayist and professor of American literature. Biography Skard was born in Kristiansand, Norway. He was a son of educators Matias Skard and Gyda Christensen . He was a brother of Bjarne Skard who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Tunsberg, of University of Oslo professor Eiliv Skard , of senior lecturer Vemund Skard and of teacher Gunnhild Skard . He was a half-brother of college teacher Målfrid Birkeland , of University of Agriculture professor Olav Skard and of horticulturalist Torfinn Skard .
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Martine Leavitt
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Overall Influence
1953 - Present (73 years)
Martine Leavitt is a Canadian-American writer of young adult novels and a creative writing instructor. Biography Leavitt was born in 1953 in Canada. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree, first class honours, from the University of Calgary and a Master of Fine Arts from Vermont College. She has seven children, twenty-one grandchildren, and lives with her husband in Alberta, Canada.
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Reinhard Döhl
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Overall Influence
1934 - 2004 (70 years)
Reinhard Döhl was a German writer and scholar in the fields of literature and media studies, also remembered as a poet and artist. Though chiefly associated with his actual name, he also worked under the pseudonym Traugott Schneider.
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Gertrud Pätsch
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Overall Influence
1910 - 1994 (84 years)
Gertrud Pätsch was a German ethnologist and philologist, who rendered service in the area of Kartvelian studies. In 1937 she graduated in Munster with a degree in the Old Georgian language. After the Second World War she left the western sector of Germany for East Berlin, where she earned a habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin in Indonesian linguistics. She taught in Berlin until she moved to the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena in 1960, where she founded the Kartvelologian faculty. After her retirement she worked for two years at the Tbilisi State University in Georgia. She published books and many articles in journals, such as Bedi Kartlisa.
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Shaun King
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Overall Influence
1979 - Present (47 years)
Jeffery Shaun King is an American writer and activist. King uses social media to promote social justice causes, including the Black Lives Matter movement. King was raised in Kentucky and received his undergraduate degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. After briefly teaching high school civics, he became a pastor. King founded a church in Atlanta in 2008 called Courageous Church, which he led for four years. During this time, King launched a number of internet campaigns, including HopeMob.org. He later received a master's degree from Arizona State University. As a writer, King has previously been a regular contributor to Daily Kos, the New York Daily News, and The Young Turks.
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Vona Groarke
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Vona Groarke is an Irish poet. Groarke was born in Mostrim in the Irish midlands in 1964, and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork. Groarke has published five collections of poetry with the Gallery Press : Shale , Other People's Houses , Flight , Juniper Street and Spindrift . She is also the author of a translation of the eighteenth-century Irish poem, Lament for Art O'Leary .
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Eleanor Wilner
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Overall Influence
1937 - Present (89 years)
Eleanor Rand Wilner is an American poet and editor. Life Wilner obtained her bachelor's from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her graduate dissertation concerned the topic of imagination and was later published as Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society .
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Pierre Mertens
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Overall Influence
1939 - Present (87 years)
Pierre Mertens is a Belgian French-speaking writer and lawyer who specializes in international law, director of the Centre de sociologie de la littérature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and literary critic with the newspaper Le Soir.
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Maaike Meijer
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Overall Influence
1949 - Present (77 years)
Maaike Meijer is a Dutch literary scholar. She is a Professor emeritus of Maastricht University. Life Meijer was born in Eindhoven in 1949, and gained her doctorate cum laude from Utrecht University in 1988 with a thesis entitled De lust tot reading. She argued that women poets had been overlooked and that a less technical review of their work was required. She then worked for ten years at the same university, where she led the post graduate women's studies doctoral students. From 1997 to 1999, as endowed professor, she was the first professor of the Opzij chair at Maastricht University. She ...
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Jean Joubert
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Overall Influence
1928 - 2015 (87 years)
Jean Joubert was a French novelist, short story writer, and poet. He won the 1978 Prix Mallarmé for Poems: 1955–1975. He won the 1975 Prix Renaudot for L'Homme de sable. Life Joubert was born in Châlette-sur-Loing, Loiret. He taught American literature at the Université Paul Valéry. He died on 28 November 2015, aged 87.
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John Cornwell
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Overall Influence
1940 - Present (86 years)
John Cornwell FRSL is a British journalist, author, and academic. Since 1990 he has directed the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was also, until 2017, Founder and Director of the Rustat Conferences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2011. He was nominated for the PEN/Ackerley Prize for best UK memoir 2007 and shortlisted Specialist Journalist of the Year , British Press Awards 2006. He won the Scientific and Medical Network Book of the Year Award for Hitler's Scientists, 2005; and...
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Sarah Kane
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Overall Influence
1971 - 1999 (28 years)
Sarah Kane was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. She is known for her plays that deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture—both physical and psychological—and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of extreme and violent stage action.
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Edgar Calabia Samar
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Overall Influence
1981 - Present (45 years)
Edgar Calabia Samar is a poet and novelist from San Pablo City, Philippines. He has received the Philippine National Book Awards for his novels and book of criticism, and the Palanca Awards for his poetry collections and short fiction. His novels Sa Kasunod ng 909, Si Janus Silang at ang Tiyanak ng Tabon and Si Janus Silang at ang Labanang Manananggal-Mambabarang all won the Philippine National Book Awards for Best Novel in a Philippine Language in 2012, 2015, and 2016, respectively. He has also been awarded the PBBY-Salanga Writer's Prize, the NCCA Writer's Prize for the Novel, the Gantimpalang Collantes sa Sanaysay, and the Gawad Surian sa Tula.
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Ling Ma
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Overall Influence
1983 - Present (43 years)
Ling Ma is a Chinese American novelist and assistant professor of practice in the Arts at the University of Chicago. Her first book, Severance, won a 2018 Kirkus Prize and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of 2018 and shortlisted for the 2019 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her second book, Bliss Montage, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and The Story Prize.
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Gavino Ledda
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Overall Influence
1938 - Present (88 years)
Gavino Ledda is an author and a scholar of the Italian language and of Sardinian. He is best known for his autobiographical work Padre Padrone . Biography Early life Ledda was born in Siligo, in the Province of Sassari, Sardinia, into a poor family of shepherds. Gavino's father made him leave school at the age of six, when he was only in the first year of his primary school education. Bursting into the classroom in the middle of a lesson, Ledda's father justified his position by saying that he needed the boy's help for his agricultural work, as Gavino was his eldest son. In scenes that featu...
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Govind Purushottam Deshpande
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Overall Influence
1938 - 2013 (75 years)
Govind Purushottam Deshpande was a Marathi playwright and academic from Maharashtra, India. Biography Education and career Born in Nashik, Deshpande grew up in Rahimatpur, where he went to school. He completed an MA in Ancient Indian History from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, and enrolled for a Ph.D. at the School of International Affairs, New Delhi. This school subsequently became part of the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Deshpande completed his Ph.D. and later taught at the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He lived in Pune after retirement.
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Jim Daniels
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
James Raymond Daniels is an American poet and writer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the writer Kristin Kovacic. Life and work Daniels was on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1981-2021, where he was the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English. He taught in the Antioch University-Los Angeles low-residency MFA Program from 2007-2021. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA Program.
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Jonathan Ames
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Overall Influence
1964 - Present (62 years)
Jonathan Ames is an American author who has written a number of novels and comic memoirs, and is the creator of two television series, Bored to Death and Blunt Talk . In the late '90s and early 2000s, he was a columnist for the New York Press for several years, and became known for self-deprecating tales of his sexual misadventures. He also has a long-time interest in boxing, appearing occasionally in the ring as "The Herring Wonder".
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Howard Fergus
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Overall Influence
1937 - 2023 (86 years)
Sir Howard Archibald Fergus was a Montserratian author and historian. He was born at Long Ground in Montserrat. He attended Bethel Primary School, Montserrat Secondary School, Erdiston Teachers College in Barbados, the University College of the West Indies , the Universities of Bristol and Manchester, and finally the University of the West Indies , earning a PhD in 1978. He retired from the University in 2004 as Professor of Eastern Caribbean Studies.
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Sophie Cabot Black
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Overall Influence
1958 - Present (68 years)
Sophie Cabot Black is an American prize-winning poet who has taught creative writing at Columbia University. Early life Cabot was born in New York, New York and raised on a small farm in Wilton, Connecticut. Her father is David Goldmark Black , a Broadway producer, actor, teacher, writer and artistic director. Her mother is Linda Black, cofounder of Opera Company of Boston and Opera New England. She has two siblings: actor Jeremy Black, who appeared as the boy Hitler clones in Boys from Brazil, and Alexander Black. She also has two daughters. Her maternal great-grandfather was industrialist ...
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Suzanne Dracius
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Overall Influence
1951 - Present (75 years)
Suzanne Dracius in Fort-de-France, in the Terres-Sainville district Biography After studying at the Lycée Marie-Curie in Sceaux and at the Sorbonne, Suzanne Dracius taught in Paris, then at the University of the French Antilles and in the United States as a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and the University of Ohio.
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Diana Lewis Burgin
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Overall Influence
1943 - Present (83 years)
Diana Lewis Burgin is an author, and Professor of Russian at the University of Massachusetts Boston; she received her B.A. in Russian from Swarthmore College, her M.A. & Ph.D. from Harvard University's Slavic Languages and Literatures Department. She has been teaching Russian at University of Massachusetts, Boston since 1975.
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Lydia H. Liu
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Overall Influence
1957 - Present (69 years)
Lydia He Liu is a theorist of media and translation and a scholar of comparative literature. She is the Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. Biography Liu received a BA from Northwest Normal University in Lanzhou, China. She then received an MA from Shandong University and PhD from Harvard University.
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Philipp Schweighauser
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Overall Influence
1971 - Present (55 years)
Philipp Schweighauser is a Swiss literary scholar and professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel. Biography Schweighauser studied English and German Literature and Linguistics at the University of Basel, where he also received his doctorate in 2003, for a thesis that introduced the notion of 'literary acoustics': The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics. His second book, Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art, published in 2016, establishes connections between the early American novel and the emergence of aesthetics in Europe.
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Leo Braudy
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Leo Braudy is University Professor and Professor of English at the University of Southern California, where he teaches 17th- and 18th-century English literature, film history and criticism, and American culture. He has previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins University. He is best known for his cultural studies scholarship on celebrity, masculinity, and film, and is frequently sought after for interviews on popular culture, Hollywood cinema, and the American zeitgeist of the 1950s.
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David Wong Louie
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Overall Influence
1954 - 2018 (64 years)
David Wong Louie was a Chinese-American novelist and short story writer. Life and career Born in Rockville Centre, New York, Louie graduated from East Meadow High School in 1973, as "one of the few Asian-Americans" in the school. He received an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa in 1981 and a BA from Vassar College in 1977. He taught at Vassar College and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Aliaksei Karpiuk
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Overall Influence
1920 - 1992 (72 years)
Aliaksei Karpiuk was a Belarusian writer and public figure. Between 1960 until 1990 he was a leader of the intelligentsia in Grodno and supported dissident writers in the USSR. Biography Aliaksei Karpiuk was born into a family of farmers, his father was a supporter of the Communist Party of Western Belarus. He graduated from a Seven-Years-School in 1934 and studied at the Polish lyceum at Wilna from 1938–1939. After the lyceum was forcefully closed during the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland on 17 September 1939, he studied at the pedagogic college of higher education in Navahrudak.
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Kirsti Simonsuuri
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Overall Influence
1945 - 2019 (74 years)
Kirsti Katariina Simonsuuri was a Finnish professor, writer, poet, and researcher of ancient literature. Her honors included the J. H. Erkko Award for Best First Book and the Wolfson Fellowship Award from the British Academy .
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Rio Preisner
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Overall Influence
1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Rio Preisner was a Czech poet, philosopher, translator, and scholar of Czech and German literature. Biography Rio Preisner was born in the eastern town of Mukačevo . In his childhood, he was exposed to a multicultural environment of Czech, Slovak, German, Ukrainian, Hungarian and Jewish communities. He spent his adolescence growing up in Prague under the shadow of the Nazi protectorate.
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Lalitha Lenin
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Overall Influence
1946 - Present (80 years)
Lalitha Lenin is an Indian poet in Malayalam. K. K. Lalitha Bai was also the Head of the Department of Library and Information Science, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram. In addition, she was a member in the Senate and Academic Council of the University of Kerala, General Council of Kerala Sahitya Academy, Jansikshan Sansthan Management Board, Governing Body of the State Institute of Children's Literature, State Resource Centre, Kerala State Core Group on Continuing Education. She was also a member of the Governing Body of the State Institute of Languages.
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Reviel Netz
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Overall Influence
1968 - Present (58 years)
Reviel Netz is an Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of classics and of philosophy at Stanford University. Life and work Netz was born January 2, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel to Israeli author and Yoel Netz, an entrepreneur and translator of Russian classics.
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Oh Takbeon
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Overall Influence
1943 - 2023 (80 years)
Oh Takbeon was a South Korean writer, poet, and critic. Life Oh Takbeon was born 3 July 1943, in Jecheon, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea. He attended Korea University, where he studied Korean literature and worked as a professor in the Department of Korean Education, also at Korea University.
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Yael Feldman
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Overall Influence
1941 - Present (85 years)
Yael S. Feldman is an American cultural historian and literary critic. She is particularly known for her work in comparative literature and feminist Hebrew literary criticism. Feldman is known for her research on Hebrew culture, history of ideas, gender and cultural studies, and psychoanalytic criticism. She is currently the Abraham I. Katsh Professor Emerita of Hebrew Culture and Education in the Judaic Studies Department at New York University and an affiliated professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies. She is also a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research, and a vis...
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Margaret Ball
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Overall Influence
1947 - Present (79 years)
Margaret Elizabeth Ball is an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and historical novels. Under the pseudonym of Catherine Lyndell, she has also written romance. Ball has a B.A. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Texas. A former Fulbright scholar and UCLA professor, she devotes her time to fabric arts and embeadery. Married with two children, she lives in Austin, Texas.
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Ann Banfield
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Overall Influence
Ann Banfield, is a professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Banfield has taught at Berkeley since 1975 and is a specialist in linguistics, critical theory and the use of philosophy as a cornerstone of modernism. In the field of narratology, Banfield has been given lasting credit for her concepts of narratorless subjectivity and addresseelessness in narration.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
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Overall Influence
1974 - Present (52 years)
Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an American poet and essayist. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land. Biography Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University. In 2016–17 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She has also taught at the Kundiman Retreat for Asian American writers. She is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She is married to the writer Dustin Parsons. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, ...
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Lee Konstantinou
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Overall Influence
1978 - Present (48 years)
Lee Konstantinou is an associate professor of English Literature at University of Maryland, College Park. Biography Lee Konstantinou was born in New York City. Konstantinou received his Bachelor of Arts in English, Psychology, and College Scholar from Cornell University. His bachelors thesis was titled “Comics and the Holocaust: A graphical Analysis of Art Spiegelman’s Maus,” about Art Spiegelman's Maus. Konstantinou then went on to receive his MA and PhD from Stanford University in 2009 with a dissertation titled “Wipe That Smirk off Your Face: Postironic Literature and the Politics of Chara...
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Spalding Gray
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Overall Influence
1941 - 2004 (63 years)
Spalding Gray was an American actor, novelist, playwright, screenwriter and performance artist. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he wrote and performed for the theater in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as for his film adaptations of these works, beginning in 1987. He wrote and starred in several, working with different directors.
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Michele Leggott
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Michele Joy Leggott is a New Zealand poet, and an emeritus professor of English at the University of Auckland. She was the New Zealand Poet Laureate between 2007 and 2009. Biography Leggott was born in Stratford, New Zealand, and received her secondary education at New Plymouth Girls' High School, before attending the University of Canterbury where she completed an MA in English in 1979. She then moved to Canada to do a PhD at the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation was on the American poet Louis Zukofsky and was published as Reading Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers .
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Matthew T. Dickerson
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Overall Influence
1963 - Present (63 years)
Matthew T. Dickerson is an American academic working as a professor of computer science at Middlebury College in Vermont. A scholar of J. R. R. Tolkien's literary work and the Inklings, Dickerson is by his own account a novelist, newspaper columnist, blues musician, historian of music, fly fisherman, maple sugar farmer, and beekeeper.
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Elliot R. Wolfson
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Overall Influence
1956 - Present (70 years)
Elliot R. Wolfson is a scholar of Jewish studies. Wolfson earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern and Judaic studies from Brandeis University, where he trained under the supervision of Alexander Altmann.
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Rossy Evelin Lima
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Overall Influence
1986 - Present (40 years)
Rossy Evelin Lima-Padilla is a United States-based Mexican writer, scholar, translator and activist. She has published her work in numerous journals, magazines and anthologies in Europe, North America and South America.
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Jennifer Doyle
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Overall Influence
1967 - Present (59 years)
Jennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is a queer theorist, art critic and sports writer. Doyle is the author of Campus Sex, Campus Security , which explores the intersection of discourse on sexual harassment and campus security, Hold it Against Me: Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art , which examines how artists work with emotion, and Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire , which considers how artworks are about sex. Along with José Esteban Muñoz and Jonathan Flatley, Doyle is co-editor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol . She is also wi...
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Paol Keineg
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Overall Influence
1944 - Present (82 years)
Paol Keineg is a Breton-American writer and poet born in Quimerc'h . He worked in several places in Brittany as a supervisor before becoming a teacher in Morlaix. He was fired without any official reason in 1972, because of his political separatist leftist Breton points of view. He set up his first plays in 1973 : Le Printemps des Bonnets Rouges about an historical revolt in Brittany.
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Zoe Fairbairns
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Overall Influence
1948 - Present (78 years)
Zoe Fairbairns is a British feminist writer who has authored novels, short stories, radio plays and political pamphlets. Biography Zoe Fairbairns was born in 1948, and educated at St. Andrews University, Scotland, and the College of William and Mary, US. She was the poetry editor for Spare Rib, in the same decade working as part of a collective of women writers to produce Tales I Tell My Mother. Fairbairns has worked as a freelance journalist and a creative writing tutor; she has also held appointments as Writer in Residence at Bromley Schools , Deakin University, Geelong, Australia , Sunderland Polytechnic and Surrey County Council .
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