We invite you to attend the Fall 2026 MCT lecture series, featuring discussions on contemporary theory and its varied engagements. Lectures will be held every Tuesday from 5:15 to 6:45 PM.
'Tóbi is a PhD student in African, African American and African Diaspora history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His ongoing research situates the Obama Presidential Center within...
Aishi Bhattacharya is a PhD student in the Department of Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on South Asian literature and culture,...
Alunood is a PhD student in Philosophy. Her research interests lie in practical philosophy, particularly at its intersections with political, moral, and social philosophy. She focuses on questions of...
Former Director of the Unit for Criticism, Susan Koshy, is leading a faculty team that has been awarded a Mellon Sawyer Seminar grant to study the challenges to academic freedom and democracy in US universities today. The co-organizers of the Sawyer Seminar are Rosalyn LaPier (History/...
We are deeply troubled by the recent circulation of an image that appears to glorify violence and to frame federal agents as executioners rather than officers bound by law.
Namita Gupta and Adil Zahoor have been awarded 2026 Nicholson Fellowship to attend School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. In an intensive six-week course of study, participants work with a faculty of distinguished scholars in one of four...
