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2019
Six-Week Seminars
Linda Martín Alcoff (Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)
Seminar: Decolonizing Epistemology
Cathy Caruth (Frank H. T. Rhodes Professor of Humane Letters, Cornell University)
Seminar: Rethinking Trauma Theory
Niklaus Largier (Sidney and Margaret Ancker Professor of German and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley)
Seminar: Figures of Possibility: Figuration, Imagination, and the Phenomenology of Rhetorical Effects
Alexander G. Weheliye (Professor of African American Studies, Northwestern University)
Seminar: Black Life
Mini-Seminars
Robert Brandom (Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
Mini-Seminar: Hegel and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity
Daphne Brooks (Professor of African-American Studies, Theater Studies, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University)
Mini-Seminar: Black Sound & The Archive
Rahel Jaeggi (Professor for Social Philosophy; Director of the Center for Humanities and Social Change, Humboldt University, Berlin; 2018/19 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Mini-Seminar: Crisis, Critique, and Materialism
Dale Jamieson (Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, Affiliated Professor of Law, Affiliated Professor of Medical Ethics, New York University)
Mini-Seminar: Love in a World of Skepticism and Irony
2018
Six-Week Seminars
Eduardo Cadava (Professor of English, Princeton University)
Seminar: Genealogies of Memory and Perception: Literature and Photography
Peter Gordon (Amabel B. James Professor in History; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Germanic Languages; Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University)
Seminar: Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory
Heather Love (Associate Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania)
Seminar: Reading the Social World: Observation, Description, Interpretation
Tracy McNulty (Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Cornell University)
Seminar: Intersubjective Acts: Psychoanalysis and Politics
Mini-Seminars
Veena Das (Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University)
Mini-Seminar: Ordinary Ethics and Its Critics
Bernard E. Harcourt (Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Political Science, Columbia University; Director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Directeur d’études, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Mini-Seminar: Toward a Critical Practice
Samuel Moyn (Professor of Law and History, Yale University)
Mini-Seminar: American War
Avital Ronell (University Professor of the Humanities; Professor of German, Comparative Literature, and English; Director of Poetics & Theory, New York University)
Mini-Seminar: Trauma Zone – Falling Apart in Literature & Philosophy
2017
Six-Week Seminars
Emily Apter (Professor of French and Comparative Literature; Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, New York University)
Seminar: Thinking in Untranslatables: Revisiting the Gender/Genre Problem
Faisal Devji (Reader in History and Fellow of St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford)
Seminar: Humanity
Michael Puett (Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Department of Eastern Languages and Civilizations; Chair of the Committee of the Study of Religion, Harvard University
Seminar: Rethinking Religion: Cosmopolitan and Comparative Perspectives
Carolyn Rouse (Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Director of the Program in African Studies, Princeton University)
Seminar: The Case Against Reparations: A Radical Rethinking of Social Justice in the 21st Century
Mini-Seminars
Philippe Descola (Chair, Anthropology of Nature, Collège de France; Director of Studies, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Mini-Seminar: Ontological Pluralism as Anthropological Critique
Shoshana Felman (Robert Woodruff Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and French, Emory University; Thomas E. Donnelly Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Mini-Seminar: Literature and Vulnerability
Avishai Margalit (Schulman Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; former George F. Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University)
Mini-Seminar: Just and Unjust Wars
Anthony Vidler (Professor of Architecture, Cooper Union; Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of
Architectural History, Yale University)
Mini-Seminar: The Smooth and the Rough: Surfaces Psychological and Architectural from Adrian Stokes to Rem Koolhaas
2016
Six-Week Seminars
Branka Arsić (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University)
Material Life: Vitalism From Spinoza to Deleuze
Warren Breckman (Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania)
The Machiavellian Moment of Radical Democracy
W. J. T. Mitchell (Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History, University of Chicago; Editor, Critical Inquiry)
Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture
Renata Salecl (Senior Researcher, Institute of Criminology at Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Professor at School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London)
The Right to Ignorance: Psychoanalysis and Secrets in Times of Surveillance
Mini-Seminars
Sandra L. Bermann (Cotsen Professor fo the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University)
Comparative Literature Meets Translation Theory
Sharon Cameron (William R. Kenan Professor of English, Emerita, Johns Hopkins University)
Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground of the Ethical
Matthew Engelke (Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Africa and the Secular
Diana Sorensen (Dean of Arts and Humanities and James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University)
Geographic Imaginaries for the 21st Century: Mobility, Materiality, and the Production of Knowledge
2015
Six-Week Seminars
Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Professor of French and Philosophy, and Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University)
Scenes of Translation
Eli Friedlander (Laura Schwarz-Kipp Professor of Modern Philosophy, Tel Aviv University)
On Affinity: Nature, Language, and Love
Marie-José Mondzain (Director of Studies, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris)
Imaging Operations: From a Zone of Disorder to a Field of Freedom
Sari Nusseibeh (Professor of Philosophy and Former President of Al-Quds University, Jerusalem)
The Story of Reason in Islam
Mini-Seminars
Anita L. Allen (Vice Provost for Faculty, Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law, and Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania)
Privacy Law, Values, and Cultural Evolution
Gwenaëlle Aubry (Researcher, Centre Jean Pépin (CNRS-Paris Villejuif) and Associate, Centre International d’Étude de la Philosophie Française (ENS-Paris Rue d’Ulm)
From Potentiality to Omnipotence: Some Groundwork for an Archeology Power
Peter E. Gordon (Amabel B. James Professor of History and Faculty Affiliate, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University)
Metaphysics at the Moment of its Fall
Michal Grover-Friedlander (Professor of Musicology, Tel Aviv University)
Impossible Voices of Opera
2014
Six-Week Seminars
Simon Critchley (Hans Jonas Professor in Philosophy, New School for Social Research)
Tragedy As Philosophy
Mark B. N. Hansen (Professor, Program in Literature, Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, Duke University)
Media Between Data and Experience
Sianne Ngai (Professor of English, Stanford University)
The Contemporary
Annelise Riles (Jack G. Clarke ’52 Professor of Law in Far East Legal Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and Director, Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture, Cornell University)
Theorizing the Gift: Law, Markets, Love
Mini-Seminars
Leela Gandhi (John Hawkes Professor of Humanities and English, Brown University)
Moral Imperfection: An Ethics for Democracy
Ursula K. Heise (Professor, Department of English/Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles)
BioCities: Urban Ecology and the Cultural Imagination
Christopher Newfield (Professor of Literature and American Studies, English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara)
Critical Theory and the Post-Capitalist University
Tricia Rose (Director, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, and Professor of Africana Studies, Brown University)
Black Popular Culture in the Age of Color-Blindness and Mass Cultural Commodification
2013
Six-Week Seminars
Ian Baucom (Director, Franklin Humanities Institute and Professor of English, Duke University)
Postcolonial Studies in the Era of the Anthropocene
Jane Bennett (Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University)
A Political Ecology of Things
Michael Bérubé (Director, Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Pennsylvania State University)
Narrative, Intellectual Disability, and the Boundaries of the Human
Julia Reinhard Lupton (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine)
Dwelling | Telling | Selling: Contemporary Design Topographies
Mini-Seminars
Akeel Bilgrami (Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy and Global Thought, Columbia University)
Agency, Alienation, and the Democratic Mentality
Rita Felski (William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English, University of Virginia)
Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Catherine Malabou (Professor at the Center For Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University)
Emotional Life in a Neurobiological Age: On Wonder
Achille Mbembe (Research Professor in History and Politics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)
Fanon and the Subject of Emancipation
2012
Six-Week Seminars
John Brenkman (Distinguished Professor, English and Comparative Literature, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College)
Philosophy of the Passions, Rhetorics of Affect
Ania Loomba (Catherine Bryson Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, South Asian Studies and Women’s Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Feminisms and Postcolonialities
Amy Villarejo (Professor of Film and Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University)
Queer Technics
Hent de Vries (Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy, and Director of the Humanities Center, Johns Hopkins University)
Miracles, Events, Effects
Mini-Seminars
Lauren Berlant (George M. Pullman Professor of English, University of Chicago)
Affects of the Commons
Ray Brassier (Associate Professor of Philosophy, American University of Beirut)
Reason and Unreason, Life and Unlife
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Albert Guérard Professor in Literature, Stanford University)
Stimmung of Latency: Cultural Moods after 1945
Rei Terada (Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California, Irvine)
Revolution-Restoration, 1814–
2011
Six-Week Seminars
Victoria Kahn (Katherine Bixby Hotchkis Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley)
Early Modern/Post Modern: Political Theology, Secularism, Literature
Webb Keane (Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan)
Rethinking Ethics: Cognitive and Ethnographic Approaches
Robert Pippin (Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in and Chair of The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought and Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago) and David Wellbery (LeRoy T. and Margaret Deffenbaugh Carlson University Professor, Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)
Theorizing Modernism: Philosophy and Criticism
Kathryn Bond Stockton (Professor of English and Director of Gender Studies, University of Utah)
Sexuality and Childhood in a Global Frame: Queer Theory and Beyond
Mini-Seminars
Seyla Benhabib (Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Yale University)
Cosmopolitanism after Kant
Brent Hayes Edwards (Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Jazz Studies, Columbia University)
Archives and Counter-Archives
Roberto Esposito (Vice-Director and Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, Italian Institute for Human Sciences)
Person and Human Life
Amy Hollywood (Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, Harvard Divinity School)
Enthusiasm and Critique
2010
Six-Week Seminars
Timothy Brennan (Professor of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, and English, University of Minnesota)
Conformism, Antagonism, Critique: On the Post-Political Turn
Bonnie Honig (Sarah Rebecca Roland Professor, Political Science, Northwestern University and Senior Research Professor, American Bar Foundation, Chicago)
Antigone in Contexts: Humanism and the Challenges of Democratic Theory
Saba Mahmood (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley)
Politics of Religious Difference
Timothy Murray (Director, Society for the Humanities; Curator, The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art; Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Cornell University)
Digital Discourse: Theory, Art, Archive
Mini-Seminars
Stanley Fish (Davidson-Kahn Distinguished Professor of Law and Humanities, Florida International University)
Academic Freedom
Saidiya Hartman (Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies, Columbia University)
Narratives of Dispossession
Katherine Hayles (Professor of Literature and Information Science, Information Studies, Duke University)
How We Think: The Transforming Power of Digital Technologies
Michael Warner (Seymour H. Knox Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University)
Sex and Secularity
2009
Six-Week Seminars
Simon During (Professor of English, Johns Hopkins University)
Conservatism, Religion, History
Geoff Eley (Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Fascism, Modernity, Politics, Aesthetics
Leela Gandhi (Professor of English, University of Chicago)
On Anticolonial Metaphysics
Michael Steinberg (Director, Cogut Center for the Humanities; Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History and Professor of Music, Brown University)
and
Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature; Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brown University)
Voice, Representation, Ideology
Mini-Seminars
Wai Chee Dimock (William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, Yale University)
Kin and Kind: Genres and Media as a World Wide Web
Dominick LaCapra (Bowmar Professor of Humanistic Studies, Cornell University)
Figurations of Trauma, the Sacred, and the Sublime
Brian Massumi (Professor of Communication Studies, University of Montreal)
The Critique of Pure Feeling
Susan Stewart (Annan Professor of English, Princeton University)
The Freedom of the Poet
2008
Six-Week Seminars
J. M. Bernstein (University Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, New School for Social Research)
Torture and Dignity
Carolyn J. Dean (Professor of History and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University)
On Disbelief, Exaggeration, and the ‘Victim’ in Contemporary Cultural Discourses
Elizabeth A. Povinelli (Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University)
Recognition, Camouflage, Espionage
Haun Saussy (Bird White Housum Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Bilingualism
Mini-Seminars
Homi K. Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English, Harvard University; Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard)
Political Theoretical Displacements: Sovereignty, Autonomy, Ethics
Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley)
Hannah Arendt and Responsibility
Gerald Early (Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in the English Department, Director of the Center for the Humanities and Director for the Center for Joint Projects at Washington University)
Jazz: The Rise and Fall of Modern Popular Music
Hal Foster (Townsend Martin Class of 1916 Professor and Chair of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University)
Bathetic, Brutal, Banal
2007
Six-week Seminars
Eric Cheyfitz (Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters, Cornell University)
What Is A Just Society? Native American Philosophies and the Limits of Capitalism’s Imagination
Marjorie Levinson (F. L. Huetwell Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan)
Spinoza’s Enlightenment and Rethinking the Romantic Turn
Bruce Robbins (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
Transnational Culture: Theory and Practice
Ann Laura Stoler (Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, New School for Social Research)
The Logos and Pathos of Empire: Durabilities of Matter and Mind
Mini-seminars
Daniel Boyarin (Hermann P. And Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley)
Powers of Dialogue: Plato, Thucydides and the Talmud
William Connolly (Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University)
Capitalism and Christianity
Martha Nussbaum (Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago)
Religion and Political Equality
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University)
Ethical Implications of Gramsci’s Educational Theory
2006
Six-Week Seminars
Amanda Anderson (Caroline Donovan Professor of English Literature, Johns Hopkins University)
Literary Theory/Political Theory
Brent Hayes Edwards (Department of English, Rutgers University)
Black Intellectuals
Eric Santner (Philip and Ida Romberg Professor of Modern Germanic Studies, University of Chicago)
On Creaturely Life
Ella Shohat (Professor, New York University) and Robert Stam (University Professor, New York University)
Travelling Debates in Translation: Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism, and Postcoloniality
Mini-seminars
Judith Butler (Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley)
Violence and Critique
Geoffrey Hartman (Sterling Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, English and Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Poetry and Divinity in Contest
Stephen G. Nichols (James M. Beall Professor of French and Humanities, Johns Hopkins University)
Spectacles of Counterrevolution: France in 1804 and 1824
Haiping Yan (Professor of Critical Studies, School of Theatre, Film, and Television, University of California, Los Angeles; Zijiang Professor of the Arts and Humanistic Studies, East China University, Shanghai, China)
On Theatricality
2005
Six-week Seminars
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht (Albert Guérard Professor of Literature, Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, Stanford University)
Production of Presence – On the Limits of Meaning in Cultural Objects and their Analysis
Elizabeth Grosz (Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers University)
Time and Becoming: Darwin, Nietzsche, Bergson, Deleuze
Toril Moi (James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Duke University)
The Fate of the Body under Skepticism: Wittgenstein, Cavell, Literature, Film
Robert J.C. Young (Professor of Englisih and Critical Theory, University of Oxford, Wadham College)
The Theory and Politics of Cultural Translation
Mini-seminars
Homi Bhabha (Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Chair of the Program in History and Literature, Harvard University)
Citizens and Subalterns: Global Measures and The Role of Minorities
Joan Scott (Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study)
French Universalism in Crisis
Hortense Spillers (Frederick J. Whiton Professor of English, Cornell University)
The Problem of Black Culture
Catharine Stimpson (Dean and University Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York University)
Loving Gertrude Stein
2004
Six-week seminars
Srinivas Aravamudan & Ranjana Khanna (Duke University)
Permanent War: Sovereignty and Empire, Subjectivity and Masculinity
Maryse Condé (Columbia University)
Literary Cannibalism: A Caribbean Strategy for Survival
Richard Schechner (New York University)
Ritual, Play, and Performance
Michael Warner (Rutgers University)
Secularism and Antisecularisim
Mini-seminars
Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)
Between Hospitality and Sovereignty: Kant, Arendt, Schmitt and Derrida
Biodun Jeyifo (Cornell University)
Cultural Modernity and Comparative Postcolonial Studies: English, Anthropology, Philosophy
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
Is Levinas ‘use-less’?
Richard Weisberg (Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University)
Law and Literature: Towards a Hermeneutics of Earthly Justice
2003
Six-week seminars
Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
The Anthropomorphic Imagination
Etienne Balibar (Université de Nanterre, France)
Racism Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Problems of Definition and Resistance
Tom Conley (Harvard University)
Spatial Practices of French Critical Theory
Mary Jacobus (Cambridge University, England)
Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism: Affects and Their Vicissitudes
Mini-seminars
Ernst van Alphen (Leiden University)
Thinking Visually: The Contribution of Images to Contemporary Thought
Wai Chee Dimock (Yale University)
American Literature and Planetary Time
Satya P. Mohanty (Cornell University)
Identity, Multiculturalism, and Internationalism: Rethinking the Issues
Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago)
Beyond the Social Contract: Capabilities and Social Justice
2002
Six-week seminars
Manthia Diawara (New York University)
Cultural Studies and the Black Diaspora
Sander Gilman (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Body Matters
Vincent Pecora (University of California, Los Angeles)
Modernity and Theory of Religion
Doris Sommer (Harvard University)
Bilingual Games
Mini-seminars
Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley)
Ethical Violence
Stanley Fish (University of Illinois, Chicago)
There’s No Such Thing as an Orientation toward Understanding: A Critique of Habermas
Naoki Sakai (Cornell University)
The Dislocation of the West and the Humanities
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University)
Political Fictions
2001
Six-week seminars
Perry Anderson (University of California, Los Angeles)
Globalization: Mega-Narrative or Myth?
Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University)
Aesthetics After Art
Diana Fuss (Princeton University)
The Senses: A Critical Genealogy
Fredric Jameson (Duke University)
Walter Benjamin’s “Arcades Project”
Mini-seminars
Geoffrey Hartman (Yale University)
Reflections on Authenticity in the Age of Simulacra
Deirdre McCloskey (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Bourgeois Virtue
Stephen Nichols (Johns Hopkins University)
On Laughter
Jacques Rancière (University of Paris VIII)
Aesthetics and Politics: Rethinking the Link
2000
Six-week seminars
David Carroll (University of California, Irvine)
Contested Memory: The Limits of Historical Representation and the Right to Fiction
Rey Chow (Brown University)
Mimeticism and Cross-Ethnic Representation
Peter Novick (University of Chicago)
The Holocaust as History, as Memory, and as Myth
David Wellbery (Johns Hopkins University)
Observation, Form, Difference: Interdisciplinary Paradigms for Literary Study
Mini-seminars
Etienne Balibar (University of Paris X)
‘Possessive Individualism’ Revisited (An Issue in Philosophical Anthropology)
Suzanne Gearhart (University of California, Irvine)
Freud in Algeria: Psychoanalysis and the Interiorization of Culture
Allen Grossman (Johns Hopkins University)
Biblical Creation, Greek Poetics, and the Logic of Judgement
1999
Six-week seminars
Benedict Anderson (Cornell University)
Late Nationalism
Seyla Benhabib (Harvard University)
Democracy’s Others: Problems of Political Membership in the Global Era
Lani Guinier (Harvard Law School)
Critical Perspectives on the Law: Issues of Race and Gender
Fredric Jameson (Duke University)
Allegory and Dialectic
Mini-seminars
Houston Baker (University of Pennsylvania)
Performing Blackness: Who Speaks for Black Modernism in America
Natalie Davis (University of Toronto)
Rethinking Cultural Mixture
Stanley Fish (University of Illinois, Chicago)
Rhetoric, Politics, Law: The Endless Quarrel
Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University)
Holocoaust Testimonies: Listening to the Victim’s Voice
1998
Six-week seminars
Michael Fried (Johns Hopkins University)
Classics of Art Criticism: Diderot, Baudelaire, Fry, Greenberg
Catherine Gallagher (University of California, Berkeley)
Undoing
Patricia Parker (Stanford University)
Shakespeare Uncontained?
Hayden White (University Of California, Santa Cruz)
Theory of the Text
Mini-seminars
Etienne Balibar (University of Paris X)
Spectres of Violence
Marianne Hirsch (Dartmouth College)
Postmemory
Martin Jay (University of California, Berkeley)
The Vicissitudes of ‘Experience’
1997
Six-week seminars
Walter Benn Michaels (Johns Hopkins University)
Posthistoricism, 1966-1996
Toril Moi (Duke University)
Sex, Gender, and the Body: Phenomenological and Psychoanalytical Perspectives
Jacqueline Rose (University of London)
Psychoanalysis and Modern Culture
Joan Scott (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
History and Theory
Mini-seminars
Roger Chartier (EHESS)
The Text and the Voice: Genre, Performances, and Audience in the Early Modern Period
Jonathan Culler (Cornell University)
Literary Theory and the Lyric
Martin Stone (Duke University)
Wittgenstein, Interpretation, and Legal Theory