Fredric Jameson (b. 1934) is William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. After completing his doctorate at Yale, he taught at Harvard, Yale, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of California, Santa Cruz, before moving to Duke in 1985. His doctoral dissertation was published in 1961 as Sartre: The Origins of a Style. He has since published numerous books on literature, film, philosophy and cultural theory, including Marxism and Form (1971), The Prison-House of Language (1972), The Political Unconscious (1981), Signatures of the Visible (1990), Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991), The Geopolitical Aesthetic (1992), The Seeds of Time (1994), Brecht and Method (1998), Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions (2005) and The Modernist Papers (2007).