Gary Saul Morson
Gary Saul Morson | |
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Morson in 2018 | |
| Born | April 19, 1948 New York City, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (B.S., Ph.D.) |
| Known for | Teaching the largest Slavic language class offered in the United States |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Literary criticism |
| Institutions | Northwestern University |
Gary Saul Morson (born April 19, 1948) 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.