The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University 2016 Summer Session: June 19 - July 29

An international program of study with leading figures in critical thought The School The School of Criticism and Theory was founded in 1976 by a group of leading scholars and critical theorists in the conviction that an understanding of theory is fundamental to humanistic studies. Today, in an unparalleled summer campus experience, the SCT offers professors and advanced graduate students of literature and related social sciences a chance to work with preeminent figures in critical thought—exploring the relationships among literature, history, art, anthropology and the law; examining the role of ideological and cultural movements; and reassessing theoretical approaches that have emerged over the last fifty years. Cornell also offers participants the resources of one of the great research libraries in the United States.

Director Hent de Vries The Program Russ Family Professor in the Humanities and Philosophy, Director of The Humanities In an intensive six-week course of study, faculty Center, Johns Hopkins University members and graduate students from around the world, in the humanities and social sciences, explore recent developments in critical theory.

Participants work with the SCT’s core faculty of

Hent de Vries distinguished scholars and theorists in one of four six-week seminars. Each faculty member offers, in addition, a public lecture and a colloquium (based The 2016 Faculty on an original paper) which are attended by the entire group.

Six-Week Seminars The program also includes mini-seminars taught Branka Arsić by scholars who visit for shorter periods. Finally, Professor of English and Comparative throughout the six weeks, distinguished theorists Literature, and Faculty Affiliate, visit the SCT as lecturers. Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University “Material Life: Vitalism From Branka Arsić Sandra L. Bermann Spinoza to Deleuze”

Warren Breckman Admission and Costs Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania The application deadline is February 1, and “The Machiavellian Moment of admissions decisions are announced in March. All Radical Democracy” applications must be submitted online. The online application may be accessed at the site listed below W. J. T. Mitchell beginning on December 1, 2015. Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor, English and Art History, Tuition for the 2016 session is $3,000. Applicants University of Chicago; Editor, Critical Inquiry Warren Breckman Sharon Cameron “Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, may compete for partial tuition scholarships and are and Visual Culture” encouraged to seek funding from their home institutions. On-campus housing is available for an Renata Salecl Senior Researcher, Institute of Criminology at additional charge. Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Professor at School of Law, Birkbeck College, For application and program information: University of London website: http://sct.cornell.edu/ “The Right to Ignorance: Psychoanalysis and Secrets in Times of Surveillance” e-mail: [email protected] phone: 607-255-9276 W. J. T. Mitchell Matthew Engelke Mini-Seminars Photo © Ellen Esrock Sandra L. Bermann The School of Criticism and Theory Cotsen Professor of the Humanities and Cornell University Professor of Comparative Literature, A.D. White House Princeton University “Comparative Literature Meets 27 East Avenue Translation Theory” Ithaca, NY 14853

Sharon Cameron The School of Criticism and Theory William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Emerita, Johns Hopkins University Renata Salecl Diana Sorensen “Tolstoy, Bresson, and the Ground Photo © Portrait Simple of the Ethical” Visiting guest lecturers Matthew Engelke Homi Bhabha Professor of Anthropology, London School Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Department of English; Director, Mahindra Humanities Center; of Economics and Political Science Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost, Harvard University “Africa and the Secular” “The Quest for Security and Questions of Cultural Form”

Diana Sorensen Marjorie Levinson Dean of Arts and Humanities and James F. F.L. Huetwell Professor, Department of English, University of Michigan Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages “Parsing the Frost: Growth of a Poet’s Sentence in ‘Frost at Midnight’” and Literatures and of Comparative Literature, Harvard University Timothy Murray “Geographic Imaginaries for the 21st Professor of Comparative Literature and English; Director, Society for the Humanities; Curator, Rose Goldsen Century: Mobility, Materiality, and the Archive of New Media, Cornell University Production of Knowledge” “Aesthetic Remix: Medial Architectonics, East and West” Based at Cornell University in the heart of the picturesque Finger Lakes region in New York state, the SCT offers a peak A.D. White House summer experience—both intellectually and environmentally.

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Senior Fellows Homi K. Bhabha Bonnie Honig Houston Baker Harvard University Brown University Vanderbilt University John Brenkman Sari Nusseibeh Jonathan Culler CUNY Graduate Center Al-Quds University, Cornell University and Baruch College Jerusalem Stanley Fish Judith Butler Hent de Vries Florida International University of California, Johns Hopkins University University Berkeley Michael Warner Geoffrey Hartman Brent Hayes Edwards Yale University Yale University Columbia University Julia Kristeva Leela Gandhi University of Paris VII Brown University HONORARY Dominick LaCapra The School of Criticism Peter E. Gordon Hazard Adams Cornell University Harvard University University of Washington Stephen G. Nichols and Theory Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Amanda Anderson Johns Hopkins University Stanford University Brown University At Cornell University Catharine R. Stimpson New York University 2016 Summer Session: June 19 - July 29