Theory/Pedagogy List

Introductory Overviews and Guides

Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, Lois Tyson
The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the New Humanities, Nealon and Giroux
Critical Terms for Literary Study,  Lentricchia and McLaughlin
Beginning Theory, Peter Barry
Literary Theory: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton
Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Jonathan Culler
Everyday Theory, Thomas McLaughlin
Ideology, Terry Eagleton
Literary Theory: A Practical Introduction, Michael Ryan
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, Veitch, et. al.
Sexual/Textual Politics, Toril Moi
Marxist Literary Criticism, Terry Eagleton
Ecocriticism, Greg Garrard
Place: a Short Introduction, Tim Creswell
Psychoanalysis and Literature: an Introduction, Robert Mollinger

Formalisms and New Criticism

Boris Eichenbaum
Viktor Shklovsky
Vladimir Propp
Cleanth Brooks
W. K. Wimsatt
John Crowe Ransom
Murray Krieger

Structuralism and Linguistics

Ferdinand de Saussure
Roman Jakobson
Claude Levi-Strauss
Tzvetan Todorov

Phenomenology/Hermeneutics
Martin Heidegger
Roman Ingarden
Georges Poulet
Gerald Bruns
William Spanos

Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud
Jacques Lacan
Julia Kristeva
Slavoj Zizek
Shoshana Felman
Juliet Mitchell

Reader Response Theory

Louise Rosenblatt
David Bleich
Stanley Fish
Wolfgang Iser
Norman Holland
Steven Mailloux
Elizabeth Flynn

Marxism
Karl Marx
Louis Althusser
Walter Benjamin
Friedrich Engels
Antonio Gramsci
Angela Davis
Georg Lukacs
Terry Eagleton
Michelle Barrett
Fredric Jameson

Cultural Studies
Raymond Williams
Stuart Hall
Dick Hebdige
Cary Nelson
Lawrence Grossberg

New Historicism
Stephen Greenblatt
Louis Montrose
Alan Sinfield
H. Aram Veeser
Catherine Gallagher
Jerome McGann
Clifford Geertz

Postcolonialism
Franz Fanon
Gayatri Spivak
Homi Bhabha
Aijaz Ahmad
Paul Gilroy
Edward Said
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong

Feminism
Simone de Beauvoir
Julia Kristeva
Luce Irigaray
Helene Cixous
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Nancy Fraser
Elaine Showalter
Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Toril Moi

GBLT and Queer Theory

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Judith Butler
Rosemary Hennessy
Jeffrey Weeks
William Spurlin

Poststructuralism
Roland Barthes
Jean Baudrillard
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Michel Foucault

Deconstruction
Jacques Derrida
Paul de Mann
J. Hillis Miller
Barbara Johnson
Geoffrey Hartman

African American
W. E. B. DuBois
Henry Louis Gates
Houston Baker
Barbara Christian
Bell hooks
Barbara Smith
The Comahee River Collective (“A Black Feminist Statement”)

Multi-Ethnic
Gloria Anzaldua
George Lipsitz
Rey Chow
Lisa Lowe
Gary Okihiro

Modern Poetics
Johanna Drucker
Anthony Easthope
N. Katherine Hayles
George Landow
Jerome McGann
Barret Watten

Performance Studies
J. L. Austin
Richard Bauman
Dell Hymes
John Foley
Richard Shechner
Erving Goffman

Ecological Approaches
Cheryl Glotfelty
Lawrence Buell
Yi-Fu Tuan
Joni Adamson
Julie Sze
Greta Gaard
Winona LaDuke
Terrell Dixon

Pedagogy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paula Freire
“Art of the Contact Zone,” Mary Louise Pratt
Beyond the Culture Wars, Gerald Graff
The Politics of Knowledge, Richard Ohmann
Practicing Theory in Introductory College Literature Courses, James M. Cahalan and
David B. Downing
Refiguring the Ph.D. in English, Stephen North
Applied Grammatology, Gregory Ulmer
Teaching Environmental Literature, Frederick Waage
Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, Spahr and Retallack
Manifesto of a Tenured Radical, Cary Nelson
Journals: College English, Teaching English in the Two-Year College (TETYC),
Pedagogy, Radical Teacher