Jane Tompkins
Jane Tompkins | |
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| Born | Jane Tompkins January 18, 1940 New York, New York |
| Occupation | Literary critic, Professor of English |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Newton North High School |
| Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
| Subject | 19th century American Literature |
| Literary movement | New Historicism |
| Notable works | Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 (1985) |
| Spouse | Stanley Fish (since 1982) |
Jane Tompkins (born 1940) is an American literary scholar who has worked on canon formation, feminist literary criticism, and reader response criticism. She has also coined and developed the notion of cultural work in literary studies and contributed to the new historicist form of literary criticism that emerged in the 1980s. She earned her PhD at Yale in 1966 and subsequently taught at Temple University, Duke University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is married to cultural critic Stanley Fish.