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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), Living
with Theory (Blackwell, 2008), and
American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s, 2nd
edition (Routledge 2009) . 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; 2nd edition, 2010)). 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
globalization, plus 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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