CT faculty will be teaching eighteen spring 2022 courses that count towards the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory. These courses reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of the Program, with core and elective options in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Education, English, Ethnic Studies, Film, German, History of Art, Philosophy, Rhetoric, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Sociology, and Spanish.

For more information on spring courses, full course descriptions, and the curricular requirements of the Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory, please visit our Courses page.

Spring 2022 Core Courses

Critical Theory 240

• English 203 | Marx and Marxism Today: Re-Reading The Grundrisse | Colleen Lye
• *Rhetoric 240G | Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Contemporary Black Thought | Fumi Okiji

*This course can also fulfill the electives (Critical Theory 290) requirement

Spring 2022 Elective Courses (Critical Theory 290)

• Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (Classics) 239 | Radical Formalisms | Mario Telò
• Anthropology 250 | Technological Selves and Sociotechnological Systems | Sarah E Vaughn
• Comparative Literature 202B | César Vallejo & His Legacies in 20th-21st Century Poetry, Poetics, & Critique: Form, Commitment (Engagement, Compromiso), & Critical Aesthetic Autonomy | Robert Kaufman
• Comparative Literature 225 | Studies in Symbolist and Modern Literature: Writing Music | Michael Lucey
• Comparative Literature 227 | Abolition and Form | Ramsey McGlazer
• Education 280B | Proseminar: Sociocultural Critique of Education | Zeus Leonardo
• Ethnic Studies 250 | Queer of Color Ecologies | Sara Mameni
• Film 200 | Theorizing Film and Media | Mary Ann Doane
• Film 240 002 | Indigenous Praxis, Indigenous Life | Natalia Brizuela
• German 214 | Ecocritical Perspectives: Waste and Value | Deniz Göktürk
• History of Art 290 | Feminist and Queer Theories in Art | Julia Bryan-Wilson
• Philosophy 290 | Art, Philosophy, and Entanglement | Alva Noë
• Philosophy 290 | Wittgenstein’s Tractatus | Hans Sluga
• Rhetoric 240G | Rhetorical Theory and Criticism: Contemporary Black Thought | Fumi Okiji
• Rhetoric 240G | Roman Stoicism and its Contemporary Relevance: Ecologies of Self, Nature, and Community | James Porter, Anthony Long
  
• Slavic 280 | Exile in Literature | Djordje Popović
• Sociology 202B | Practice and Symbolic Power in Bourdieu | Loïc Wacquant
• Spanish 280 | Relationality: Networks of Latin America | Nathaniel Wolfson