Sharon O’Dair

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 544 citations indexed

About

Sharon O’Dair is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and History. According to data from OpenAlex, Sharon O’Dair has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 544 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 3 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in History. Recurrent topics in Sharon O’Dair's work include Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 papers) and Theatre and Performance Studies (1 paper). Sharon O’Dair is often cited by papers focused on Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (4 papers), Social and Cultural Dynamics (2 papers) and Theatre and Performance Studies (1 paper). Sharon O’Dair collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Sharon O’Dair's co-authors include John Guillory, Annabel Patterson, David L. Miller, Erin Sullivan, John Lavagnino, Peter Holland, Margo Hendricks, Peter Kirwan, Farah Karim‐Cooper and Christie Carson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Modern Language Review, College English and New Literary History.

In The Last Decade

Sharon O’Dair

15 papers receiving 224 citations

Hit Papers

Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation 1994 2026 2004 2015 1994 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation
    1994 472 citations Sharon O’Dair, John Guillory South Atlantic Review profile →

Peers

Sharon O’Dair
Catherine Belsey United Kingdom
Ross Posnock United States
B. McH.
Colin MacCabe United States
Henry Sussman United States
Stephen Best
Simon During Australia
Russell A. Berman United States
Christine Holmlund United States
Tom Conley United States
Catherine Belsey United Kingdom
Sharon O’Dair
Citations per year, relative to Sharon O’Dair Sharon O’Dair (= 1×) peers Catherine Belsey

Countries citing papers authored by Sharon O’Dair

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sharon O’Dair

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sharon O’Dair

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sharon O’Dair. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sharon O’Dair based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sharon O’Dair. Sharon O’Dair is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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O’Dair, Sharon, et al.. (2019). Shakespeare and the 99%. 2 indexed citations
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Carson, Christie, John Lavagnino, Bruce R. Smith, et al.. (2014). Shakespeare and the Digital World. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2011). Academostars Are the Symptom; What's the Disease?. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University).
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2011). "To Fright the Animals and to Kill Them Up": Shakespeare and Ecology. 39. 74. 2 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2009). Laboring in Anonymity. symplokē. 16(1-2). 7–19. 1 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2008). The state of the green: A review essay on Shakespearean ecocriticism. Shakespeare. 4(4). 459–477. 7 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2005). Horror or realism? Filming ‘toxic discourse’ in Jane Smiley'sA Thousand Acres. Textual Practice. 19(2). 263–282. 2 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2005). The Tempest as Tempest: Does Paul Mazursky 'green' William Shakespeare?. ISLE Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. 12(2). 165–178.
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2003). Class Work: Site of Egalitarian Activism or Site of Embourgeoisement?. College English. 65(6). 593–593. 5 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2002). Toward a Postmodern Pastoral: Another Look at the Cultural Politics of My Own Private Idaho. 7(1). 3.
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2000). Class, Critics, and Shakespeare: Bottom Lines on the Culture Wars. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (2000). Beyond Necessity: The Consumption of Class, the Production of Status, and the Persistence of Inequality. New Literary History. 31(2). 337–354. 5 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (1997). Stars, Tenure, and the Death of Ambition. The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association. 10 indexed citations
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Hendricks, Margo, et al.. (1996). The Production of English Renaissance Culture. The Modern Language Review. 91(3). 699–699. 2 indexed citations
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Patterson, Annabel, et al.. (1996). The Production of English Renaissance Culture.. Shakespeare Quarterly. 47(2). 209–209. 19 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon & Martha Woodmansee. (1995). The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics. South Atlantic Review. 60(1). 166–166.
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O’Dair, Sharon & John Guillory. (1994). Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation. South Atlantic Review. 59(2). 130–130. 472 indexed citations breakdown →
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O’Dair, Sharon. (1993). Theorizing as Defeatism: A Pragmatic Defense of Agency. Mosaic (Winnipeg). 26(2). 111–121. 2 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (1993). Social Role and the Making of Identity in Julius Caesar. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900. 33(2). 289–289. 2 indexed citations
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O’Dair, Sharon. (1985). The Social Self and Science. PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America. 100(1). 99–100. 1 indexed citations

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