Julie H. Rivkin (born 1952) is an American literary critic and professor of English at Connecticut College since 1982.
She is best known for her publications on literary theory and Henry James, and has published several works on both subjects.
[1] Her other specializations include American literature and gender studies[1] (publisher of the Henry James Review).
In 1996, Rivkin published a book of essays titled False Positions: The Representational Logics of Henry James's Fictions, which explores theoretical complications in Henry James's novels The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, What Maisie Knew, and The Awkward Age.
[4] The large anthology covers topics ranging from Russian Formalism to the post-structuralist work of Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault.