Jonathan Culler

Jonathan Culler, born October 1, 1944, in Cleveland, Ohio, is a prominent literary scholar and the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University since 1977.[1][2][3] Educated at Harvard (B.A. 1966) and Oxford (B.Phil. 1968, D.Phil. 1972) as a Rhodes Scholar, he is renowned for seminal works like *Structuralist Poetics* (1975, Lowell Prize winner), *On Deconstruction*, *Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction* (translated into 27 languages), and *Theory of the Lyric* (2015).[1][2][3] He has held leadership roles including president of the American Comparative Literature Association and chairs at Cornell, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2001), American Philosophical Society (2006), and British Academy (2020).[1][3]