literary scholar

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If only Freidenberg could have foreseen that, in a distant continent three-quarters of a century later, another literary scholar, like herself, would so ably bring these moving and brilliant notes to light.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

In 1978, Geoffrey H. Hartman, a literary scholar at Yale, invited Dr. Langer to work on the Fortunoff Video Archive, a new program in which Holocaust scholars spent hours interviewing victims.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

“Her death was a profound shock to everyone in the literary community,” I was told on WhatsApp by Tetyana Ogarkova, a Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

As the poet and literary scholar Elizabeth Alexander notes, Mamie Till-Mobley was both "a history maker and history keeper."

From Salon • Oct. 22, 2022