Robert E. Scholes

Robert E. Scholes (1929–2016) was an American literary critic and theorist known for his influential work on fabulation, metafiction, semiotics, and the history of narrative. A Yale graduate and Cornell PhD, he taught at institutions including Brown University, where he co-founded the Modernist Journals Project and helped legitimize science fiction as a serious genre. He authored or edited around forty books on topics ranging from James Joyce and Ernest Hemingway to structuralism and digital humanities.