Barbara Herrnstein Smith
American literary critic and theorist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Barbara Smith.
Barbara Herrnstein Smith (born 1932) is an American literary critic and theorist, best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. She is currently the Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University, and also Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.
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Born | 1932 (age 91–92) Bronx, New York |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | City College of New York, Harvard, Brandeis University |
Period | 1968– |
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