- Paul Cantor
Paul Cantor is an American literary critic and "austrian" theorist of economy. Educated at Harvard (A.B., 1966, Ph.D., 1971), he has taught for many years at the
University of Virginia .He has written widely on a wide range of subjects, including Shakespeare,
Romanticism , Austrian economics, and contemporarypopular culture . His books include "Shakespeare's Rome" (1974), "Creature and Creator: Myth-Making and English Romanticism" (1984), "Shakespeare: Hamlet" (1989), and "Gilligan Unbound" (2003).Cantor was featured in a 2005 article published in "Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture 1900 to Present" in which Cantor was described as "a preeminent scholar in the field of American popular culture studies. In a world of categories, labels, genres, Professor Cantor has proven himself to be remarkably resistant, publishing on Oscar Wilde one day, on Salman Rushdie another, on Samuel Beckett another, and then winning the Ludwig von Mises Prize for Scholarship in Austrian School Economics on yet another. His diverse research interests have manifested themselves once again with the publication of his latest book, Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization, in which he turns his academic eye to four popular American television shows: Gilligan’s Island, Star Trek, The Simpsons, and The X-Files."
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