literary scholar
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If the distinguished Soviet literary scholar Olga Freidenberg is known at all in the West, it is for her 45-year correspondence with her beloved first cousin, the novelist and poet Boris Pasternak.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025
The fan categorized each passage as “aligned” or “inconsistent,” citing contextual nuance and linguistic patterns like a literary scholar.
From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025
In 1978, Geoffrey H. Hartman, a literary scholar at Yale, invited Dr. Langer to work on the Fortunoff Video Archive, a new program in which Holocaust scholars spent hours interviewing victims.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
“Her death was a profound shock to everyone in the literary community,” I was told on WhatsApp by Tetyana Ogarkova, a Ukrainian literary scholar and journalist.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023
