In memoriam
'A one-of-a-kind intellectual giant'
Published July 23, 2019Richard A. Macksey, a longtime Johns Hopkins professor whose affiliation with—and impact on—the university spanned six and a half decades, died Monday in the Baltimore area after an illness. He was 87. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature.
