# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/christopher-ricks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:20:46.205Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/christopher-ricks"
name: "Christopher Ricks"
slug: "christopher-ricks"
description: "Sir Christopher Bruce Ricks is a British literary critic and scholar. He is the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University (US), co-director of the Editorial Institute at Boston University, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (UK) from 2004 to 2009. In 2008, he served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics."
tagline: "British literary critic and scholar (born 1933)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1933-09-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.456456456456456
  historical:           5.494134666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Christopher Ricks"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump