"even before genre research became an organized field the idea of a stable hierarchy of literary genres was devastated by central researchers."
No, you silly autocorrect troll living inside my word processer, I do not need a comma after "genre". The statement "even before genre, research became an organized field" means something else and that something else is nonsense.
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