Sharon Cameron is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English Emerita at Johns Hopkins University. She has also taught at the University of California, Princeton, Boston University, and The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. Among her books are Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre, Thinking in Henry James, Impersonality: Seven Essays, The Bond of the Furthest Apart: Essays on Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Bresson, and Kafka, and, recently, The Likeness of Things Unlike: A Poetics of Incommensurability (2025). She also selected and wrote prefaces to three volumes of Louise and Aylmer Maude’s translations of Tolstoy’s short stories (Riverrun editions).

In 2008 she received the Hubbell Prize, a lifetime achievement award from the American literature branch of the MLA, and in 2009 the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.