Wendy Steiner

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Wendy Steiner is an American literary critic and scholar known for her influential work on aesthetics, modernism, and the relationship between visual art and literature.

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instanceOf academic
literary critic
person
scholar
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
Trilling Award
citizenship American
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt McGill University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
employer University of Pennsylvania
fieldOfWork aesthetics
comparative literature
interarts studies
literary criticism
modernism
relationship between visual art and literature
gender female
genre aesthetic theory
art criticism
literary criticism
hasWrittenOn Gertrude Stein
censorship and art
modern painting
theories of beauty
knownFor analysis of the relationship between visual art and literature
studies of modernism
work on aesthetics and beauty in twentieth-century art
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf American Comparative Literature Association
Modern Language Association
surface form: Modern Language Association of America
nationality American
notableWork Exact Resemblance to Exact Resemblance: The Literary Portraiture of Gertrude Stein
Pictures of Romance: Form Against Context in Painting and Literature
The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation Between Modern Literature and Painting
The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism
Venus in Exile: The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art
occupation professor
placeOfWork Philadelphia
positionHeld Chair of the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania
Founding director of the Penn Humanities Forum
Richard L. Fisher Professor of English

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