Hassan, Ihab Habib, 1925-....

Ihab Hassan is a prominent literary critic, scholar, and theorist best known for his work on postmodernism.

He was born in Cairo, Egypt on October 17, 1925. He studied electical engineering at the University of Cairo and came to the United States in 1946, where he has remained ever since, to pursue graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). Shortly after receiving his MS in 1948, Hassan concentrated on literary studies and received his Ph. D. from Penn in 1953. Following academic positions at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Wesleyan University, Hassan joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1970 as the Vilas Research Professor of English and Comparative Literature, a position he continues to hold as of 2002.

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