literary scholar

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If the distinguished Soviet literary scholar Olga Freidenberg is known at all in the West, it is for her 45-year correspondence with her beloved first cousin, the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak.

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

“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

Last year, the literary scholar Wendy Roberts announced the discovery of what she says is the earliest known full-length Wheatley elegy, from 1767.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

This vibrant and readable book can be tied to the work of literary scholar Christina Sharpe, who presents the concept of "the wake" – a means of contemplating the continued effects of the Middle Passage.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2023