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Alain Viala

French literary critic1947 to 2021

Supervised 11 doctoral students at University of Oxford, Oxford University, UK, and Université Paris 3 Sorbonne nouvelle between 1992 and 2017; Wikidata names Jacques Morel as doctoral advisor and lists 14 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students11

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Students on Wikidata14

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

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The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 28 people: 11 cited by thesis records, 19 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

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