PROGRAM IN CRITICAL THEORY

Reading Groups

Reading Groups AY 2025-26

• Foucault and Black Studies
  Contact: Sabrina Robleh | SabrinaRobleh2030@u.northwestern.edu

READING GROUPS AY 2022-23

• Black(end) Gender & Sexuality
  Contact: Corbin Covington | corbin.covington@u.northwestern.edu
• Performance and Race at the Edge of Theory
  Contact: Daisy Matias | daisydonaji@u.northwestern.edu

Reading groups AY 2021-22

• Candice Delmas, A Duty to Resist
  Contact: Ryan Bince
• Antonio Gramsci Reading Group
  Contact: Mattingly Gerasimovich
  Contact:  Eloisa Bressan

reading groups ay 2020-21

• Pedagogies and Scholarships of Care
  Contact: Ruslana Lichtzier
• Sylvia Wynter and W.E.B. Du Bois
  Contact: Lucien Ferguson 
  Contact:  Luna White
• Wendy Brown
  Contact: Timothy Charlebois
• Radical Democratic Theory
  Contact: Usdin Martínez 
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• Eos READS For Black Lives (in partnership with Classics Cluster)
  Contact: Andrew Hull 
  Contact: Patricia Marechal
• Critical Public Humanities
  Contact: Angela Tate
  Contact: Rebekah Bryer
• 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
• Decolonizing the Universal, Decolonizing the University (June 2021)
  Contact: Carmen de Schryver

Reading Groups AY 2019-20

• 21st-Century Critical Prison Studies Reading Group
  Contact: Maria A. Dikcis
  Contact: Rishee Batra
• Disability and Disablement Reading Group
  Contact: Risa Puleo

Reading Groups AY 2018-19

• Adorno Reading Group
  Contact: Eli Lichtenstein
• Capital Reading Group
  Contact: Ben Schacht
• Critical Theory Studies: Trauma
  Contact: Anna Parkinson 
• Derrida Reading Group
  Contact: Carmen de Schryver 
• Eruptions of Memory (Critical Theory in Global South Mellon Grant Project)
  Contact: Emily Ruf
• Franz Fanon Reading Group (one-time in preparation for Decolonial Aesthetics Workshop on November 30, 2018)
  Contact: William Paris

Reading Groups AY 2017-18

• Adorno Reading Group
  Contact: Eli Lichtenstein
• Animal Studies Reading Group
  Contact: Sabrina Jaromin
• Critical History of Capitalism Reading Group
  Contact: Gabby Garcia or Casey Caldwell 
• Critical Theory Studies: Trauma
  Contact: Anna Parkinson 
• Indian Ocean Epistemologies Reading Group
  Contact: Serah Kasembeli or Kritish Rajbhandari 

Reading Groups AY 2016-17

• Adorno Reading Group
  Contact: Eli Lichtenstein
• Agamben Reading Group
  Contact: Brian Leahy
• African Philosophy Reading Group
  Contact: F. Delali Kumavie
• Animal Studies Reading Group
  Contact: Sabrina Jaromin
• The Body Reading Group
  Contact: Hector Feliciano
• Bourdieu's Field Theory Reading Group
  Contact: Elena Rodina 
• Marx's Capital Reading Group 
  Contact: Ben Schacht 
• The Latin American Biopolitics Reading Group (please find more information on this reading group here)
  Contact: Carlos Gustavo Halaburda
• Radix Reading Group
  Contact: Jessica Monetiro Passos

Reading Groups AY 2015-16

• Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit 
  Contact: Kyle Jones
• Marx's Capital Reading Group 
  Contact: Ben Schacht
• Paul of Tarsus Reading Group
  Contact: Joshua Winchester