Jane Tompkins | |
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Born | Jane Tompkins January 18, 1940 New York, New York |
Occupation | Literary critic, Professor of English |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Education | Newton North High School |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
Subject | 19th century American Literature |
Literary movement | New Historicism |
Notable works | Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 (1985) |
Spouse | Stanley Fish (since 1982) |
Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism.[1] She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies[2][3] and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s.[4][5] She earned her PhD at Yale in 1966 and subsequently taught at Temple University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.[6] She is married to cultural critic Stanley Fish.[7]