Irene Tucker is a literary critic and theorist. She is Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine.[1][2] She has authored two books, A Probable State: The Novel, the Contract, and the Jews (2000) and The Moment of Racial Sight: A History (2012), as well as the treatise A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism (2016).[3][4][5] Tucker earned her B.A. from Columbia University and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley.[6][7]