This collection is comprised of manuscripts and research materials from philosopher and political theorist Etienne Balibar.

Barbara Cohen was the director of HumaniTech program at the University of California, Irvine's School of the Humanities, and the co-editor of along with Dragan Kujundzic, professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville. This collection...

This collection contains administrative records and flyers from Critical Theory Emphasis (CTE), an interdisciplinary program for graduate students at the University of California, Irvine's School of Humanities. The majority of the records belonged to former Emphasis director Alexander Gelley and...

This collection documents events, people, projects, and administration of the UC Irvine Critical Theory Institute (CTI). It comprises audio and video recordings of selected events including the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory and the Wellek Library Lectures, as well as...

This collection contains published offprints that were received by Special Collections and Archives as part of the personal papers of several prominent critical theorists. The offprints were separated because they were not of enduring value in documenting the scholarly work...

This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Paul de Man documenting his career as a scholar and literary theorist in the field of comparative literature, and as an academic in the United States. Files primarily contain his manuscripts...

This collection consists of printed email correspondence from the "Derrida and Deconstruction," or DERRIDA, listserv between 1991 and 1994. The online scholarly discussion group addressed the philosophical, political, and literary work of Jacques Derrida and the theory of deconstruction.

This collection is comprised of manuscripts, typescripts, recordings, photographs, and an extensive clippings file documenting the professional career of Jacques Derrida and providing comprehensive documentation of his activities as a student, teacher, scholar, and public figure. In addition, Derrida's files...

This collection contains publications, manuscripts, notes, annotated sources, subject files, and curriculum vitae of former University of California, Irvine French and Comparative Literature professor, Eugenio Donato.

This collection comprises video recordings made by Safaa Fathy to document selected public lectures and other activities of the French philosopher and critical theorist Jacques Derrida between 2000 and 2004. Events include public lectures, panel discussions, conferences, and ceremonies. Some...

This collection documents Stanley Fish's professional career as a literary theorist and academic. Materials are largely textual--including primarily drafts of his writings, publications, and clippings and photocopies for teaching and research purposes--and range in coverage from his early student work...

The William F. Halloran materials on Ihab Hassan is comprised of correspondence between Hassan and Halloran in written and email formats, as well as the final typescript of Rumors of Change: Essays of Five Decades, which was published by The...

This collection documents the academic work of literary critic, scholar, and theorist Ihab Hassan (1925-2015). The bulk of these materials reflect his work on American fiction of the later twentieth century, in addition to his extensive writings on postmodernism, literary...

This collection comprises research notes and correspondence from Neil Hertz' and Tom Kennan's 1988 research trip to Belgium to gather information for .

This collection consists of publications by and other papers from Renée Riese Hubert, Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. The collection includes artists' books, publications about artists' books, including art exhibition and artists'...

This collection includes records for the operation of the International Center for Humanistic Discourses at the University of California, Irvine in the 1990s. Forms of materials include published papers, conference summaries, conference transcripts, correspondence, conference planning papers, the Humboldt grant...

This collection contains professional and private correspondence, papers presented at conferences, course reading and lecture notes, videorecordings, and unpublished and published writings documenting the work of literary theorist Wolfgang Iser as a teacher and scholar. The papers reflect Iser's main...

The Fredric Jameson papers contains drafts of a manuscript, "The Benjamin Files," written by Fredric Jameson, which will be published in 2020. "The Benjamin Files" is about Walter Benjamin, a critical theorist.

This collection comprises book manuscripts, articles, seminars, lectures, correspondence and other writings documenting the professional life of literary theorist Murray Krieger. The bulk and strength of the collection consists of drafts of Krieger's numerous publications (particularly thirteen monographs), student papers...

This collection comprises the papers of Steven Mailloux, critical theorist and Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Irvine and President's Professor of Rhetoric at Loyola Marymount University. The papers consist of scholarly and professional papers, including published...

Catherine Malabou is a philosopher and theorist and professor in the department of Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. She was the 2015 Wellek Library Lecturer at the University of California, Irvine, and...

This collection comprises offprints of critical theory articles published by Louis Marin, and a bibliography of his work. The bulk of the materials are in French and English.

This collection consists of scholarly and personal papers of J. Hillis Miller (1928-2021), literary critic and Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of California, Irvine. The collection best documents Miller's intellectual life as a specialist in Victorian...

This collection includes the personal and professional papers of Robert Langford Montgomery Jr., professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. It is composed of materials primarily related to Montgomery's education and career as a Shakespearian scholar. Included...

The Michel Oren collection on the Marxist Literary Group and the Schizo-Culture conference contains 21 lectures given by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Terry Eagleton at the 1977 Summer Institute of the Marxist Literary Group of the Modern Language Association...

This collection includes the print and electronic teaching and research papers of Mark Poster, Professor of History and Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was a pragmatist philosopher, critical theorist, and public intellectual. This collection comprises manuscripts, teaching files, professional correspondence, research notes, biographical material, and ephemera. It also includes some family papers and correspondence, as well as writings dating to...

This collection includes the research and publications of John Carlos Rowe, literary critic and former professor of English at UC Irvine. The collection is primarily composed of his work as an author of literary criticism and works in American studies....

This collection comprises the papers of Gabriele Schwab, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. She is the former director and member of the Critical Theory Institute. She also holds courtesy appointments in Anthropology, English, European Languages and Studies,...

This collection consists of 85 audio cassette recordings of lectures by Eugenio Donato and Wolfgang Iser, as collected by former University of California, Irvine graduate student Marli Shoop. Shoop recorded the lectures while enrolled in courses at UC Irvine in...

This collection comprises the papers of Georges Van Den Abbeele, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, and Dean Emeritus of the University of California, Irvine School of Humanities from 2013-2018. The papers include materials pertaining to Van Den Abbeele's scholarship,...

This collection consists of published works by Robert Weimann, Shakespearean scholar and Professor Emeritus, Department of Drama, University of California, Irvine. The bulk of the collection consists of works by Weimann, comprising preprints, reprints, and offprints of journal articles, book...

This collection consists of the personal and scholarly papers of Yale University's Sterling Professor of Comparative Literature René Wellek (1903-1995). This collection primarily documents Wellek's academic career as a specialist in Slavic and English literature, as well as a historian...