Fredric Jameson: advisors and students

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Fredric Jameson

American academic and literary critic1934 to 2024

Supervised 12 doctoral students; Wikidata names Erich Auerbach as doctoral advisor, lists 1 doctoral student, names Rey Chow as teacher, and lists 6 people they taught. Linked to Wikidata, Wikipedia, and 4 other registers.

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Students12

cited by a thesis record
Nathan L. Smith “The Structure of Aesthetic Experience”
2023 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jason Goldfarb “Science Fiction Without a Future: Imagination in the Age of Post-productive Capitalism”
2022 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Joseph Ren “The Ends of the World-System: Resource Scarcity and Population Panics from Chesney to London”
2022 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Pietro Bianchi “The Restlessness of the Imaginary”
2019 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Karim Wissa “Music and the Modes of Production: Three Moments in American Jazz”
2018 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Abhishek Bose-Kolanu “Hypervisor Theory: An Anti-Theory of the Media”
2017 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lisa Anne Klarr “Useless: The Aesthetics of Obsolescence in Twentieth Century U.S. Culture”
2017 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gerry Canavan “Theories of Everything: Science Fiction, Totality, and Empire in the Twentieth Century”
2012 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Koonyong Kim “The Spatial Unconscious of Global America: A Cartography of Contemporary Social Space and Cultural Forms”
2010 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
FIRAT ORUC “Minor Measures: The Plebeian Aesthetics of World Literature in the Twentieth Century”
2010 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ernesto Menendez-Conde “Arte Abstracto E Ideologías EstéTicas En Cuba”
2009 · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alexander Ruch “Fictions of the Afterlife: Temporality and Belief in Late Modernism”
2009 · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Erich Auerbach

Students on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

stated by Wikidata
Kim Stanley Robinson
born 1952

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Rey Chow

Taught6

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Zhang Yiwu
born 1897
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Terry Eagleton
born 1943
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Zhang Xudong
born 1965
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Robert T. Tally Jr.
born 1969
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Dougal McNeill
born 1981
a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision
Nicolas Vieillescazes

The line above and below2 steps

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.

1 step up
stated by WikidataErich Auerbach
2 steps up
stated by WikidataErhard Lommatzsch

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 13 people: 12 cited by thesis records, 1 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career4

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.

until 1959
Yale University
studied
undated
Haverford College
studied
undated
Moorestown Friends School
studied
undated
Duke University
worked

At a glance

known as: essayist, political scientist, writer, literary critic, sociologist, journalist, editor, politician, philosopher, literary theorist, teacher, political analyst, university teacher, literary scholar
fields: literary criticism, philosophy, political theory, Marxism
awards: Holberg International Memorial Prize, 2008, Pilgrim Award, 2006, Wilbur Cross Medal, 2013, Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969, William Riley Parker Prize, 1971, Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2014, Guggenheim Fellowship, 1978, James Russell Lowell Prize, 1990
member of: American Academy of Arts and Sciences
notable works: Raymond Chandler
Wikipedia: in 50 languages

stated by WikidataStated by Wikidata, shown apart from the thesis records.

Elsewhere6

identity

stated by WikidataWikipediaFredric Jameson
stated by WikidataWikidataQ347362
stated by WikidataVIAF108213141
stated by WikidataGND118925253
stated by WikidataIdRef028579186
stated by WikidataISNI0000000121468591

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@misc{academicancestry_Q347362,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Fredric Jameson: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q347362},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Fredric Jameson: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q347362