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unusual facts about Michael Riffaterre

Michael or Michel Riffaterre (20 November 1924, Bourganeuf, Creuse – 27 May 2006, New York) was an influential French literary critic and theorist.

Over the years the building has been home to such notable faculty members as philosophers John Dewey, Frederick J. E. Woodbridge and Ernest Nagel, Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, French literary scholar Michael Riffaterre, poet Kenneth Koch and English literary scholars Lionel Trilling, Edward Said, Carolyn Heilbrun, Quentin Anderson, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Mark Van Doren.