Thompson, Ewa M. 1937-

Ewa Majewska Thompson (born 1937) is a Polish-American literary scholar, slavicist, and cultural critic. She is Professor Emerita of Slavic Studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where she taught from 1970 until her retirement in 2006. A specialist in Russian literature, Central and Eastern European cultural history, and postcolonial theory, Thompson is recognized as one of the first scholars to systematically apply colonial discourse analysis to Russian imperial culture. She is best known for her book Imperial Knowledge: Russian Literature and Colonialism (2000), which argues that Russia used literature to justify and normalize its imperial domination of neighboring nations. She was the editor of the Sarmatian Review.