Reading Groups
Reading groups AY 2021-22
- Antonio Gramsci Reading Group
Contact: Mattingly Gerasimovich | magerasimovich@u.northwestern.edu
Contact: Eloisa Bressan | eloisabressan2020@u.northwestern.edu
reading groups ay 2020-21
- Pedagogies and Scholarships of Care
Contact: Ruslana Lichtzier | RuslanaLichtzier2025@u.northwestern.edu - Sylvia Wynter and W.E.B. Du Bois
Contact: Lucien Ferguson | lucien.ferguson@nlaw.northwestern.edu
Contact: Luna White| lunawhite2024@u.northwestern.edu - Wendy Brown
Contact: Timothy Charlebois | charlebois@northwestern.edu
More Information - Radical Democratic Theory
Contact: Usdin Martínez | usdinmartinez2024@northwestern.edu
More Information - Eos READS For Black Lives (in partnership with Classics Cluster)
Contact: Andrew Hull | AndrewHull2019@u.northwestern.edu
Contact: Patricia Marechal | patricia.marechal@northwestern.edu - Critical Public Humanities
Contact: Angela Tate | AngelaTate2022@u.northwestern.edu
Contact: Rebekah Bryer | RebekahBryer2022@u.northwestern.edu - Afterlives of Extractivism: The Protest of the Pass in South Africa and the Documentary Gesture Reading Group (April 29, 2021)
Contact: criticaltheory@northwestern.edu - Black Trans Feminism and Trans – Latinx Citizenship Reading Group (April 2021)
Contact: Andres Mendieta | andres.mendietasm@gmail.com
More Information - Decolonizing the Universal, Decolonizing the University (June 2021)
Contact: Carmen de Schryver | carmendeschryver2021@u.northwestern.edu
More Information
Reading Groups AY 2019-20
- 21st-Century Critical Prison Studies Reading Group
Contact: Maria A. Dikcis | MariaDikcis2014@u.northwestern.edu
Contact: Rishee Batra | HarishBatra2021@u.northwestern.edu - Disability and Disablement Reading Group
Contact: Risa Puleo | rpuleo@u.northwestern.edu
Reading Groups AY 2018-19
- Adorno Reading Group
Contact: Eli Lichtenstein | EliLichtenstein2021@u.northwestern.edu - Capital Reading Group
Contact: Ben Schacht - Critical Theory Studies: Trauma
Contact: Anna Parkinson | a-parkinson@northwestern.edu - Derrida Reading Group
Contact: Carmen de Schryver | carmendeschryver2021@u.northwestern.edu - Eruptions of Memory (Critical Theory in Global South Mellon Grant Project)
Contact: Emily Ruf | emily.ruf@northwestern.edu - Franz Fanon Reading Group (one-time in preparation for Decolonial Aesthetics Workshop on November 30, 2018)
Contact: William Paris | william.paris@northwestern.edu
Reading Groups AY 2017-18
- Adorno Reading Group
Contact: Eli Lichtenstein | EliLichtenstein2021@u.northwestern.edu - Animal Studies Reading Group
Contact: Sabrina Jaromin | sabrinajaromin2012@u.northwestern.edu - Critical History of Capitalism Reading Group
Contact: Gabby Garcia | GabrielaGarcia2014@u.northwestern.edu or Casey Caldwell | WilliamCaldwell2019@u.northwestern.edu
- Critical Theory Studies: Trauma
Contact: Anna Parkinson | a-parkinson@northwestern.edu - Indian Ocean Epistemologies Reading Group
Contact: Serah Kasembeli | serah.kasembeli@northwestern OR Kritish Rajbhandari | kritishrajbhandari2012@u.northwestern.edu
Reading Groups AY 2016-17
- Adorno Reading Group
Contact: Eli Lichtenstein EliLichtenstein2021@u.northwestern.edu - Agamben Reading Group
Contact: Brian Leahy BrianLeahy2020@u.northwestern.edu - African Philosophy Reading Group
Contact: F. Delali Kumavie franciscakumavie2019@u.northwestern.edu - Animal Studies Reading Group
Contact: Sabrina Jaromin sabrinajaromin2012@u.northwestern.edu - The Body Reading Group
Contact: Hector Feliciano hector.feliciano@u.northwestern.edu - Bourdieu's Field Theory Reading Group
Contact: Elena Rodina rodina@u.northwestern.edu - Marx's Capital Reading Group
Contact: Ben Schacht schacht@u.northwestern.edu - The Latin American Biopolitics Reading Group (please find more information on this reading group here)
Contact: Carlos Gustavo Halaburda carloshalaburda2020@u.northwestern.edu - Radix Reading Group
Contact: Jessica Monetiro Passos JessicaPassos2020@u.northwestern.edu
Reading Groups AY 2015-16
- Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Contact: Kyle Jones at kylejones2021@u.northwestern.edu - Marx's Capital Reading Group
Contact: Ben Schacht schacht@u.northwestern.edu - Paul of Tarsus Reading Group
Contact: Joshua Winchester jw3@u.northwestern.edu