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Jane Tompkins
American literary scholar (born 1940)
Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism.[1] She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies[2][3] and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s.[4][5] She earned her PhD at Yale in 1966 and subsequently taught at Temple University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.[6] She is married to cultural critic Stanley Fish.[7]