found:Wikipedia, via WWW, 23 December 2019(Paul de Man, born December 6, 1919 in Antwerp, Belgium; died December 21, 1983 in New Haven, Connecticut. Born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, he was a literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United States. De Man began his teaching career in the United States at Bard College. In 1960 he completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University, then taught at Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Zurich. He joined the faculty in French and Comparative Literature at Yale University, where he was considered part of the Yale School of Deconstruction. At the time of his death from cancer, he was Sterling Professor of the Humanities and chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale.)