Fredric R. Jameson

Fredric R. Jameson is an emeritus professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He was born in Cleveland, USA, in 1934. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught at Harvard, the University of California (San Diego), and Yale before moving to Duke University, where he became a professor of comparative literature. Described as "America's leading Marxist critic" (T. Eagleton), he was one of the first thinkers to critically link a certain network of sociopolitical and cultural conditions with the term "postmodernism." As the author of numerous books, he has developed, over the past three decades, a rich perspective on the relationship between Western culture and political economy. In 2008, he was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize.