The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers (ALSCW) was organized in 1994 as the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics by a group of over 400 scholars troubled by what they saw as an over reliance on post-modern theory in the academy. Among the founding members were Robert Alter

Robert Alter

Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew language and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.-Biography:...

, Joseph Brodsky

Joseph Brodsky

Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...

, Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue is an Irish literary critic. He is currently the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters at New York University....

, John Hollander

John Hollander

John Hollander is a Jewish-American poet and literary critic. As of 2007, he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University...

, Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic, many of whose writings depicted the immigrant experience in early twentieth century America....

, Mary Lefkowitz

Mary Lefkowitz

Mary R. Lefkowitz is an American classical scholar and Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College. She is best known to non-Classicists for her anti-Afrocentrism book, Not Out of Africa . She is the widow of Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones.-Biography:Lefkowitz earned her B.A...

, Richard Poirier

Richard Poirier

Richard Poirier was an American literary critic.He co-founded the Library of America, and served as chairman of its board. He was the Marius Bewley Professor of American and English Literature at Rutgers University...

, Christopher Ricks

Christopher Ricks

Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks, FBA is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford from 2004...

 and Roger Shattuck

Roger Shattuck

Roger Whitney Shattuck was an American writer best known for his books on French literature, art, and music of the twentieth century.-Background and education:...

, "a Who's Who of the American literary establishment." Since 1999, the association has published a review, Literary Imagination.

External links

• Caleb Crain. The Shock of the Old, Lingua Franca, March, 1999.
• Boris Kacha. On Closer Reading, Salon, 17 November, 1999.
• ALSC News
• Literary Imagination
• Association of Literary Scholars, Critics and Writers