The Critical Theory Workshop (CTW) is a student-organized seminar initiated. It invites junior and mid-level professors, working in areas of interest to our graduate students, to lead a one-day workshop. Assistant Professor Nima Bassiri, Director of the Institute, is the faculty facilitator for this group, and students choose the workshop leaders. At this time, workshops are only open to the faculty and graduate students of the Program in Literature and invited departments. While faculty are welcome to attend, the sessions are primarily for the students and will remain their initiative and responsibility.
Graduate Student Co-Chairs
Yuting Hu
Yuting Hu is a PhD student in the Literature Program and the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI). She is now serving as the co-chair for the Critical Theory Workshop (CTW), the Jameson Institute for Critical Theory. Her research focuses on the construction of national subjectivity in anti-realist narratives in twentieth- and twenty-first century Chinese and Sinophone literature and media. She also works on Chinese literary and digital modernism and postmodernism, aesthetics, psychoanalysis, queer narratives, and video game studies.
Carson Welch
Carson Welch is a doctoral candidate in Literature at Duke University. His research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglophone literature, comparative modernisms, and the history and theory of the novel. His work has been published or is forthcoming in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Modernism/Modernity, and Radical Philosophy. He is also the editor of Fredric Jameson’s lectures on French theory (The Years of Theory, Verso, 2024) and modern German thought (Verso, forthcoming).
Participants
Leigh Claire La Berge, English, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York
Samera Esmeir, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
Salome Aguilera Skvirsky, Department of Cinema and Media Studies and the College, University of Chicago
HeeJin Lee, East Asian Languages, Literatures & Cultures, University of Pittsburgh
Calvin Warren, African American Studies, Emory University
Parisa Vaziri, Comparative Literature & Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
Kimberly Quiogue Andrews, Department of English, University of Ottawa
Paul Nadal, English and American Studies, Princeton University
Luka Arsenjuk, Program in Cinema and Media Studies, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park
Karen Ng, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Ikyo Day, English, Critical Social Thought, and Gender Studies, Mount Holyoke College
Pooja Rangan, English, Film and Media Studies, Amherst College
Chris Chen, Literature, UC Santa Cruz
Annie J. McClanahan, English, University of California, Irvine
Fumi Okiji, Rhetoric, University of California, Berkley
Brian R. Jacobson, Visual Culture, California Institute of Technology
Martín Arboleda, Sociology, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
