Vytautas Kavolis

Biography

Vytautas Kavolis (September 8, 1930 in Kaunas – June 25, 1996 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian sociologist, literary critic, and culture historian. He was the department head and Professor of Comparative Civilizations and Professor of Sociology at Dickinson College Kavolis authored more than a dozen books and numerous scholarly articles published in the US and Lithuania. Most of his work was published in English. Kavolis' literary criticism embraced, and contributed to, postmodern and postcolonial perspectives.