Editing Jonathan Culler (section)

==Background and career==
Culler attended [[Harvard]] for his [[undergraduate]] studies, where he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in [[history]] and [[literature]] in 1966. After receiving a [[Rhodes scholarship]], he attended [[St John's College, Oxford|St. John's College]], [[Oxford University]], where he earned a B. Phil (now M. Phil) in [[comparative literature]] (1968) and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|D.Phil]] in modern languages (1972).<ref name=makaryk>Shea, Victor (1993). "Jonathan Dwight Culler". In Makaryk, Irene Rima (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Contemporary Literary Theory: Approaches, Scholars, Terms'', p. 283-84. University of Toronto Press. {{ISBN|0-8020-6860-X}}.</ref> His [[thesis]] for the B. Phil., on phenomenology and literary criticism, recorded Culler's first experiences with structuralism. The thesis explored the work of [[Maurice Merleau-Ponty]] and the criticism of the "Geneva School" using the ideas of [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]], [[Roland Barthes]], and [[Ferdinand de Saussure]]. Culler's "expanded, reorganized and rewritten" doctoral dissertation, "Structuralism: The Development of Linguistic Models and Their Application to Literary Studies," became an influential prize-winning book, ''Structuralist Poetics'' (1975).<ref>Jonathan Culler, ''Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism, Linguistics, and the Study of Literature'' (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1975), pp. viii-ix.</ref> 

Culler was Fellow in French and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at [[Selwyn College, Cambridge|Selwyn College]], [[Cambridge University]], from 1969 to 1974, and Fellow of [[Brasenose College]], Oxford and University Lecturer in French from 1974 to 1977.<ref name=makaryk/> He was Visiting Professor of French and Comparative Literature at [[Yale University]] in 1975. He is a past president of the [[Semiotic Society of America]] (1988), the American Comparative Literature Association (1999–2001), Secretary of the [[American Council of Learned Societies]] (2013–17), and Chair of the [[New York Council for the Humanities]] (2016–17).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Jonathan D. Culler {{!}} Literatures in English |url=https://english.cornell.edu/jonathan-d-culler |access-date=2024-11-08 |website=english.cornell.edu}}</ref> He has been elected a fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (2001–), the [[American Philosophical Society]] (2006–), and the [[British Academy]] (2020-).
Currently, he is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at [[Cornell University]].<ref name=":0" /> He retired in 2019 after teaching for over fifty years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-11-13 |title=Renowned English Prof. Jonathan Culler to Retire After More Than 50 Years - The Cornell Daily Sun |url=https://cornellsun.com/2019/11/12/renowned-english-prof-jonathan-culler-to-retire-after-more-than-50-years/ |access-date=2024-11-09 |website=cornellsun.com |language=en-US}}</ref>  

In the years 1971–1974 he was married to the poet [[Veronica Forrest-Thomson]]. Culler is now married to [[deconstruction]]ist critic [[Cynthia Chase]].