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Ewa Thompson
Ewa Majewska Thompson (born 1937) is a Polish-American literary scholar, slavicist, and cultural critic. She is Professor Emerita of Slavic Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she taught from 1970 until her retirement in 2006.
A specialist in Russian literature, Central and Eastern European cultural history, and postcolonial theory, Thompson is recognized as one of the first scholars to systematically apply colonial discourse analysis to Russian imperial culture.
She is best known for her book Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (2000), which argues that Russia used literature to justify and normalize its imperial domination of neighboring nations.
She was the editor of the Sarmatian Review.
Thompson was born in 1937 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, to a Polish family displaced by the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland. After the Second World War, she was raised in Gdańsk, Poland, in modest circumstances that she has described as formative for her sensitivity to issues of power, exclusion, and cultural survival.
Initially trained as a pianist, Thompson studied at the Sopot Conservatory of Music, receiving an M.F.A. in 1963. In the same year, she completed a B.A. in English and Russian at the University of Warsaw. Pursuing her interest in literature and philosophy, she emigrated to the United States for doctoral study, earning a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Vanderbilt University in 1967.
Thompson began teaching in 1967. She held positions at Indiana State University (1967–1968), Indiana University (1968–1970), and the University of Virginia (1973–1974).
In 1970 she joined Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she remained for the bulk of her career. She was promoted to Professor of Slavic Studies in 1979, chaired the department from 1987 to 1990, and became Research Professor of Slavic Studies in 2006. She was named Professor Emerita in 2018.
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Ewa Thompson
Ewa Majewska Thompson (born 1937) is a Polish-American literary scholar, slavicist, and cultural critic. She is Professor Emerita of Slavic Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she taught from 1970 until her retirement in 2006.
A specialist in Russian literature, Central and Eastern European cultural history, and postcolonial theory, Thompson is recognized as one of the first scholars to systematically apply colonial discourse analysis to Russian imperial culture.
She is best known for her book Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (2000), which argues that Russia used literature to justify and normalize its imperial domination of neighboring nations.
She was the editor of the Sarmatian Review.
Thompson was born in 1937 in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, to a Polish family displaced by the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland. After the Second World War, she was raised in Gdańsk, Poland, in modest circumstances that she has described as formative for her sensitivity to issues of power, exclusion, and cultural survival.
Initially trained as a pianist, Thompson studied at the Sopot Conservatory of Music, receiving an M.F.A. in 1963. In the same year, she completed a B.A. in English and Russian at the University of Warsaw. Pursuing her interest in literature and philosophy, she emigrated to the United States for doctoral study, earning a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Vanderbilt University in 1967.
Thompson began teaching in 1967. She held positions at Indiana State University (1967–1968), Indiana University (1968–1970), and the University of Virginia (1973–1974).
In 1970 she joined Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she remained for the bulk of her career. She was promoted to Professor of Slavic Studies in 1979, chaired the department from 1987 to 1990, and became Research Professor of Slavic Studies in 2006. She was named Professor Emerita in 2018.