Fredric Jameson

Fredric Jameson

Professor, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French), Director of the Center for Critical Theory

20142016

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Research Interests

Political Economy

Research interests

His most frequently taught courses cover modernist literature and cinema, Marx and Freud, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, and Zizek, as well as the modern French novel and cinema, and the Frankfurt School. Among Professor Jameson's ongoing concerns is the need to analyze literature as an encoding of political and social imperatives, and the interpretation of modernist and postmodernist assumptions through a rethinking of Marxist methodology.

Education/Academic qualification

Ph.D., Yale University 1959

M.A., Yale University 1956

B.A., Haverford College 1954

External positions

Director of the Center for Critical Theory,DUKE

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