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Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.12 "Gearing Up/Winding Down"

[The latest in our multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, was posted prior to publishing MAD WORLD: Sex,...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.11 "Chinese Wall"

[The next in our multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of MAD WORLD:...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.10 "Get Rid of It"

[Faith Wilson Stein, a graduate student in Comparative Literature, is the author of the next in our multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, which anticipated the March 2013 release of...
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Open Letter to the Board of Trustees

[D. Fairchild Ruggles, Professor of Landscape Architecture, is the author of the below Open Letter, written in response to a Board of Trustees meeting she attended Thursday. Professor Ruggles has asked the readership of Kritik to post comments and for...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.9 "On Feeling, Filling, and Flying"

[The next in our multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of MAD WORLD: Sex,...
9/13 Author's Roundtable 1: Kathleen Woodward, Statistical Panic Guest Writer: Michael Simeone

[On Monday, September 13, the Unit for Criticism held the first of its Fall 2010 Author’s Roundtables, hosting Kathleen Woodward who discussed her book, Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Emotions (Duke 2009). Below guest...
9/13 Author's Roundtable 1: Kathleen Woodward, Statistical Panic Responses from Ericka Beckman, Jane Desmond, Elizabeth Hoiem

[On Monday, September 13, the Unit for Criticism held the first of its Fall 2010 Author’s Roundtables. The Unit hosted Kathleen Woodward who discussed her latest book, Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.8 "The Hail Mary Pass"

[The next in our multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of MAD WORLD:...
"Second Week of Classes" Samantha Frost

[Kritik is pleased to publish the second in a series of posts by Samantha Frost, associate professor in Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies. As the recipient of a...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.7 "Pitching"

[The next in our multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, posted prior to the publication ofMAD WORLD: Sex,...
Timothy Campbell "A Common Milieu: Italian Thought After 1968 and 1989"

A Common Milieu: Italian Thought After 1968 and 1989Written by Timothy Campbell (Cornell University)[Guest writer Timothy Campbell was a speaker at the Unit for Criticism's Spring 2010 conference,...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.6 "Cure for the Common..."

[The next in our continuing multi-authored series of posts on the fourth season of Mad Men, posted prior to the publication of ...
"First Week of Classes" Samantha Frost

[This week Kritik is pleased to publish the first in a series of posts by Samantha Frost, associate professor in Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies. As the recipient of a...
Mad World on Kritik: Mad Men Season 4.5 "Trouble Down There"

[Our multi-authored series of posts on Mad Men season 4 prior to the publication of...
Letter from the Director, Fall 2010

Dear Colleagues,Once again it’s my great pleasure to welcome you back after summer and invite you to take part in the Unit’s programming this fall. The Unit has a busy autumn calendar that Associate Director Rob Rushing and I hope you will enjoy. Before I turn to those events, I want to offer an official welcome to Geography and...