Presidents of The University of Chicago - Literature

Literature

• Frederick A. de Armas – Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities and Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature; also Chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures.
• Saul Bellow (X. 1939) – Former Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and English. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Lauren Berlant – George M. Pullman Professor of English.
• Homi K. Bhabha – Former Professor of English.
• Allan Bloom – Author of The Closing of the American Mind; former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
• Wayne C. Booth – George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus.
• Kenneth Burke –
• John Maxwell Coetzee – 2003 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature; Distinguished Professor in the Committee on Social Thought.
• David Bevington – Perhaps the most eminent living scholar of the work of William Shakespeare.
• T. S. Eliot – Influential poet, dramatist and literary critic. Member of the University of Chicago's famed Committee on Social Thought.
• Ralph Ellison – National Book Award winner for Invisible Man, one of the most important novels since World War II.
• Leela Gandhi – postcolonial theorist and British English professor
• Gerald Graff (A.B. 1959) – Former Professor of English and Education.
• Mark Strand – Former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought. Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Thornton Wilder – Professor (1930–1937). Winner of the National Book Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
• Norman Maclean – Author of A River Runs Through It
• Chicago School of literary criticism – Group of faculty members at the University of Chicago (R.S. Crane, Elder Olson, Wayne Booth) who founded neo-Aristotelianism.
• A. B. Yehoshua (born 1936), Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright