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The Program in Critical Theory

The Program in Critical Theory was launched with the intention of providing graduate students the opportunity to train in true interdisciplinarity, bringing together some of the most rigorous and innovative forms of critique from across the humanities and social sciences.  Over the past 18 years and hundreds of graduate students, the Program in Critical Theory has nurtured field-defining scholarship and shaped critical conversations for generations to come.

Apply to the Program by March 14, 2025

Meet Affiliated Faculty

Meet our PhD Students

What is Critical Theory?

Faculty Feature: Debarati Sanyal

Professor, Department of French, Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Critical Inquiry

Faculty Feature: Tom McEnaney

Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature

Faculty Feature: Fumi Okiji

Assistant Professor, Department of Rhetoric, Affiliate Faculty for the Program ing Critical Theory, 2023 Hellman Fellow

Featured News

Poulomi Saha Joins Critical Theory as Co-Director

November 1, 2023

Pedro Rolon: Like Miasma: Hybrid Writing, Experimental Inquiry

October 12, 2023

Stephen Best Appointed as New Director of the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley

June 22, 2023

Debarati Sanyal appointed as new director of the Consortium for Interdisciplinary Research at UC Berkeley

August 17, 2022
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