Ihab H. Hassan (born in 1925) is an american literary theorist and writer born in Egypt. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, and emigrated to the United States in 1946. Currently he is Emeritus Vilas Research Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His writings include Radical Innocence: The Contemporary American Novel (1961), The Dismemberment of Orpheus: Toward a Postmodern Literature (1971), The Postmodern Turn: Essays in Postmodern Theory and Culture (1987), and Selves at Risk: Patterns of Quest in Contemporary American Letters (1990), as well as two memoirs, Out of Egypt: Scenes and Arguments of an Autobiography (1985) and Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan (1996). Recently, he has published short fiction in various literary magazines.