Richard Ohmann
American literary critic
About Richard Ohmann
Lived 1931 – 2021 (aged 90). Richard Ohmann was an American literary scholar, university teacher and scholar of English.
Richard Malin Ohmann (July 11, 1931 – October 8, 2021) was an American literary critic.
Richard Malin Ohmann was born on July 11, 1931, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He received a bachelor's degree in literature from Oberlin College in 1952 and a master's and doctorate from Harvard University in 1954 and 1960, respectively.
Ohmann was a Marxist. At Wesleyan, he taught a course called "Economics of Fiction". In the late 1970s he designed and oversaw a Wesleyan course called "Towards a Socialist America."
Ohmann died on October 8, 2021, in Hawley, Massachusetts. (one chapter by Wallace W. Douglas)
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American literary critic
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Richard Ohmann was born on 11 July 1931 in Shaker Heights.
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Richard Ohmann died on 8 October 2021 in Hawley.
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Richard Ohmann was a literary scholar, university teacher and scholar of English.
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