School of Criticism and Theory

The School of Criticism and Theory, now at Cornell University, is a summer program (offered in six-week seminars) in social science and literature. It is one of the most influential such programs in the United States to propagate the new dominant stream of "literary-critical-cultural 'theory'." The school was co-founded in 1976 by Murray Krieger, a prominent New Critic, and Hazard Adams, a literary critic, at the University of California, Irvine,[1][2] and has previously been housed at Northwestern University and Dartmouth College. In 2011, Cornell hosted it for the thirteenth time.[3] In 2002, it was directed by Dominick LaCapra.[4]

  1. ^ Leitch, Vincent B. (2010). American literary criticism since the 1930s. Taylor & Francis. pp. 42–43, 327. ISBN 978-0-415-77817-6. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  2. ^ "In Memoriam: Remembering Hazard S. Adams (1926-2023)".
  3. ^ "Cornell Chronicle: CU to host School of Criticism and Theory". Cornell University. Retrieved 8 February 2012.
  4. ^ Monroe, Jonathan (2002). Writing and revising the disciplines. Cornell UP. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-8014-8751-4. Retrieved 8 February 2012.