Christopher Ricks

British literary critic and scholar (born 1933)

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Also known as Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks

Born: September 18, 1933
Birthplace: Beckenham
Citizenship: United Kingdom
Occupation: literary critic
Education: Balliol College
Employer: Stanford University
, University of Bristol
, Boston University
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Languages spoken, written or signed: English

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Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (US), co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2004 to 2009. In 2008, he served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics.

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Given name: Christopher
Member of: British Academy
Royal Society of Literature
Family name: Ricks
Awards: Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature(1970)
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