Theory and Cultural Studies
Many of us engage directly and substantially with schools of theory and/or Cultural Studies in our scholarship as well as in our graduate and undergraduate teaching and our thesis advising. Our theoretical interests include critical theory, postmodernist and poststructuralist theories, feminist and queer theories, critical race theory, disability theory, postcolonial theory, avant-garde theory, and of course literary theory. Our range in Cultural Studies extends to cultural studies of science and technology, aesthetics and cultural studies, feminist cultural studies, film studies, reception theory, cultural policy studies, Latino/a cultural studies, and visual culture. Many of us are involved in theory-driven intra- and interdepartmental initiatives.
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People specializing in this area
Tenure-Line Faculty
Brian Lennon
Media theory, modernity theory, theory of globalization, translation theory, theory of the essay
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Benjamin Schreier
- Theory of identity and identification; Critique of historicism; Statism; National and nationalist discourse; Modernism and postmodernism; Habits of thought and recognition; Reactionary formations; Literary history and literary critical orthodoxies; Intellectuals; Philosophy and literature; Aesthetics
Susan Merrill Squier, Ph.D.
I work in a number of different areas that fall under this heading: science studies, literature and medicine, feminist theory and women's studies, and agricultural studies. In Feminist Theory, I teach a doctoral seminar on "Feminist Theory of the '60s and '70s." I also teach a doctoral seminar on "Gender and Science: Reproduction" in which students read foundational works in science studies and engage in laboratory observation as part of an exploration of the concept of reproduction at three scales (the human, the animal, the bacterial) and from several different perspectives/ locations (literary criticism, feminist theory, cultural and science studies, and agricultural studies).
