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Professor Leitch is the
author of Deconstructive Criticism (Columbia University Press,
1982), American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s (Columbia
University Press, 1988 [which has been translated into four languages]),
Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (Columbia
University Press, 1992), Postmodernism-Local Effects, Global Flows
(SUNY Press, 1996), Theory Matters (Routledge, 2003), and Living
with Theory (Blackwell, 2008). He has also published essays and
reviews in journals such as College English, Critical Inquiry,
Comparative Literature, MLN, and Philosophy and Literature.
He has contributed articles and chapters to various book collections
and reference works, including Encyclopedia of World Literature in
the Twentieth Century (1983), Feminism and Institutions
(1989), The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (1993),
John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism (1994 and 2005
editions), The Institution of Literature (2002), and Encyclopedia
of Literature and Politics (2005). He served as the general
editor, along with a five-person editorial team, of The Norton
Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2001). Dr. Leitch has received
grants and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies,
the American Philosophical Society, Big XII Universities, the
Fulbright-Hayes Commission, the Mellon Foundation, the National
Endowment for the Humanities, and the Oklahoma Humanities Council.
Professor Leitch's teaching focuses on criticism and theory, cultural
studies, contemporary U.S. culture, theories of postmodernity, and
poetry and comparative poetics. His interdisciplinary interests include
contemporary Continental philosophy particularly French
poststructuralism and recent visual culture especially painting. In his
advanced courses, students typically write critical reviews and
argumentative essays, and they make oral presentations and field
questions based on critiques of course texts: it is a matter of
students going beyond summarizing ideas in order to theorize solutions
and invent new knowledge.
Personal home page: http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/L/Vincent.B.Leitch-1/home.html
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