The Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory is an interdisciplinary program developed within the Graduate College and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Since its founding in 1981, the Unit has promoted the study of theory and shaped major debates about poststructuralism, Marxism, cultural studies, feminism, and postcolonial theory. In recent years, the Unit has led inquiry into the non-human turn, new materialisms, subaltern studies and indigeneity, and critical technology studies. Serving as a platform for experiments in theory and interdisciplinarity, the Unit has contributed to the turn in critical theory away from the field’s European origins towards new connectivities in and to the Global South.

For more information, visit the Unit website: criticism.illinois.edu