Barbara Johnson
Author
1947 – 2009
Who was Barbara Johnson?
Barbara Johnson was an American literary critic and translator, born in Boston. She was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society at Harvard University. Her scholarship incorporated a variety of structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives—including deconstruction, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and feminist theory—into a critical, interdisciplinary study of literature. As a scholar, teacher, and translator, Johnson helped make the theories of French philosopher Jacques Derrida accessible to English-speaking audiences in the United States at a time when they had just begun to gain recognition in France. Accordingly, she is often associated with the "Yale School" of academic literary criticism.
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- Born
- Oct 4, 1947
Boston - Also known as
- Barbara E. Johnson
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Oberlin College
- PhD, Yale University
French Language
( - 1977) - French literature
- Employment
- Magic Solutions
- Lived in
- Cambridge
(1982 - 2009/08/27)
- Cambridge
- Died
- Aug 27, 2009
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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