critical theory | Research UC Berkeley

Name

Expertise

Department

Rizvana Bradley

aesthetic theory, art history, black studies, contemporary art, contemporary film theory, critical theory, moving image installation, postcolonial studies, race and the philosophy of media

Dept of Film and Media

feminist theory, critical theory, theories of neoliberalism, public higher education, nineteenth and twentieth century political theory

Dept of Political Science

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, comparative literature, 19th and 20th century continental philosophy, social and political thought, philosophy and literature

Dept of Comparative Literature

critical theory, Middle Eastern Studies, Legal and political thought, law and society, legal histories, colonialism and post-colonialism

Dept of Rhetoric

critical theory, aesthetics, literary theory, Kant, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Arendt, Benjamin, 18th-20th century German thought, Hegel, Adorno

critical theory, U.S. cultural studies, Israel-Palestine, theories of race and ethnicity, comparative diaspora studies, public humanities

Dept of Ethnic Studies

Catherine Flynn

modernism, Irish, British, comparative literature, critical theory, Avant-Gardes, James Joyce, Flann O'Brien

Dept of English

Amanda Jo Goldstein

18th-century British literature, 19th century British literature, critical theory, poetry

Dept of English

Marcial González

Chicano and Chicana literature, twentieth-century American ethnic literatures, theory of the novel, marxism, critical theory, farm worker social movements

Dept of English

English literature, American literature, the novel, narrative theory, critical theory, Henry James, William Faulkner, the modern novel of consciousness

Dept of English

Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann

Modern German and European History, Human Rights and Internationalism, global urban history, critical theory

Dept of History

critical theory, English, modernism, literature and philosophy, literature of the Americas, literature of the African Diaspora, postcolonial literature and theory, narrative and historiography

Dept of English

English literature, Shakespeare, English renaissance, Spenser, drama, theater, American film history, film theory and production, critical theory, imperialism, nationalism, mass entertainment, authorship

Dept of English

pre-modern drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history and theory of emotion, 19th and 20th century media culture, critical theory

Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures

critical theory, gender and sexuality studies, Pacific, 19th century British literature, cultural studies

Dept of English

Andrew Way Leong

19th-century American literature, 20th- and 21st-century American literature, Asian American, Pacific, critical theory, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies

Dept of English

postcolonial theory, critical theory, cultural studies, Asian American literature, 20th and 21st century literature, world literature

Dept of English

Djordje Popović

Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literature, critical theory, comparative literature

Dept of Slavic Languages and Literatures

Classical Studies, philosophy, critical theory, aesthetics, Nietzsche, Auerbach

Dept of Classics

Dept of Rhetoric

postcolonial studies, Asian American, South Asian, critical theory, gender and sexuality, cultural studies

Dept of English

20th century avant-gardes, Japanese literature, film, theater and dance, East Asia, media theory, contemporary art, critical theory, gender theory

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of Film and Media

Greek literature, Roman drama, critical theory

Dept of Classics

critical theory, African American literature, historiography

Dept of English

film theory, digital media, global art cinema, gender and sexuality studies, critical theory

Dept of Film and Media

critical theory, linguistics, narrative & the novel, 20th and 21st century Britain

Dept of Comparative Literature

Dept of English

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