Rita Felski was born on 1956 and is an academic and critic, who holds the John Stewart Bryan Professorship of English at the University of Virginia and is a former editor of New Literary History.
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Rita Felski is Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Southern Denmark.
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Rita Felski is closely associated with the field of postcritique, a school of thought that tries to find new forms of reading and interpretation that go beyond the methods of critique, critical theory, and ideological criticism.
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Rita Felski is the author of Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change, The Gender of Modernity, Doing Time: Feminist Theory and Postmodern Culture, Literature After Feminism, and Uses of Literature.
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Rita Felski is the editor of Rethinking Tragedy and co-editor of Comparison: Theories, Approaches, Uses, Critique and Postcritique, and Latour and the Humanities.
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Rita Felski received an honors degree in French and German literature from Cambridge University and her PhD from the Department of German at Monash University in Australia.
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Rita Felski served as Chair of the Comparative Literature Program at Virginia from 2004 to 2008.
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From 2003 to 2007 Rita Felski served as US editor of Feminist Theory.
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Rita Felski's work has been translated into Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Swedish, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Turkish.
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Rita Felski has held fellowships at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, the Commonwealth Center for Literary and Cultural Change at the University of Virginia, and the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, and was the recipient of an Australian Research Council Major Grant.
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Rita Felski received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southern Denmark in 2016 and will receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Turku in 2021.