The Critical Theory Workshop (or, CTW) highlights current scholarship in the ever-evolving practice of “critical theory,” understood in the broadest sense.
CTW strives to broaden the scholarly project of critical theory beyond the remit of the familiar and formative Frankfurt School and traditions of Marxist analysis in order to reappraise the project of “critique” and the value of theoretically committed scholarship across more comprehensive global contexts, historical transformations, and scholarly registers. As such, CTW is committed to exploring emergent critical-theoretical scholarship throughout a range of disciplinary subfields of the humanities and interpretative social sciences, including literary theory, aesthetics, and media studies; critical race and post-colonial theory; global south and secularity studies; social and political theory; history and theory of political economy; critical conceptual history; science and technology studies; gender and queer theory; geography and urbanization studies; disability theory; and critical environmental humanities.
Find our past workshops here, or join us at an upcoming one.
Leif Weatherby
German, New York University
Andrea Bachner
Comparative Literature, Cornell University
Leigh Claire La Berge
English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York
Samera Esmeir
Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Salome Aguilera Skvirsky
Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago
HeeJin Lee
East Asian Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Pittsburgh
Calvin Warren
African American Studies, Emory University
Parisa Vaziri
Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews
English, University of Ottawa
Paul Nadal
English and American Studies, Princeton University
Luka Arsenjuk
Cinema and Media Studies, University of Maryland, College Park
Karen Ng
Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Ikyo Day
English, Critical Social Thought and Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Pooja Rangan
English, Film and Media Studies, Amherst College
Chris Chen
Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
Annie J. McClanahan
English, University of California, Irvine
Fumi Okiji
Rhetoric, University of California, Berkley
Brian R. Jacobson
Visual Culture, California Institute of Technology
Martín Arboleda
Sociology, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
