# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-bersani
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:45:20.780Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-bersani"
name: "Leo Bersani"
slug: "leo-bersani"
description: "Leo Bersani was an American academic, known for his contributions to French literary criticism and queer theory. He was known for his 1987 essay \"Is the Rectum a Grave?\" and his 1995 book Homos."
tagline: "Literary theorist and emeritus university professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley."
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1931-04-16"
deathDate: "2022-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           7.24122
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump