Gary Saul Morson

Gary Saul Morson
Born19 April 1948
NationalityAmerican
Alma materB.S., Ph.D., Yale University
Known forTeaching the largest Slavic language class offered in the USA
Scientific career
FieldsLiterary criticism
InstitutionsNorthwestern University

Gary Saul Morson (born April 19, 1948[1]) is an American literary critic and Slavist. He is particularly known for his scholarly work on the great Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin. Morson is Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. Prior to this he was chair of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania for many years.

  1. ^ Gary Saul Morson, Literature and History: Theoretical Problems and Russian Case Studies (Stanford University Press, 1986: ISBN 0-8047-1302-2), copyright page.

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