[The first in the Unit for Criticism's multi-authored series of posts on Season 7 of AMC's Mad Men, posted in collaboration with the publication of...

[Patrick Fadely and Dave Morris are affiliates of the Unit for Criticism from the Department of English, and the authors of the post below, written in response to the Arizona Senate Bill 1062 and its consequences with regard to religious freedom.] “The Rhetorical Victory of SB 1062”Written by Patrick Fadely...

“Sexual Sovereignties”Written by: Ben Bascom (English)Zoe Leonard, "Observation Point," 2012 [On March 7, 2014 the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies organized a talk by Ann Cvetkovich (University...

[On February 7, 2014 the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory held the symposium “Worlding Realisms.” Below are the remarks by closing roundtable participant, Rob Rushing (Italian/CWL)]"Otherworlding Realisms"...

[On February 7, 2014 the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory held the symposium “Worlding Realisms.” Below are the remarks by closing roundtable participant, François Proulx (French)]"Realism’s Others"Written...

In February 2012, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory and the Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Culture, & Society co-organized a winter symposium, The Ends of History. The Unit for Criticism is delighted to announce that a related publication--...

[The Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign released a statement in support of Chancellor Wise on January 28th following backlash from the undergraduate student body after she announced that the university would remain open on January 27th despite cold weather] Statement in Support of Chancellor Wise As scholars, teachers, staff, and students...

Robert Braithwaite Martineau, "The Last Day in the Old Home" (1862)[On November 19, the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory hosted a seminar with Talia Schaffer, Professor of English...

[On November 06, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory hosted a seminar with Dipesh Chakrabarty, Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar and Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages and...

[On November 4, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory hosted "Climate Change and the Human Condition," a lecture by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Nicholson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at UIUC and Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of...

[On October 28, Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory held an Author's Roundtable hosting Thomas A. Bredehoft to discuss his new book, The Visible Text: Textual Production and Reproduction from Beowulf to Maus. The response from Allyson...

[On October 28, Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory held an Author's Roundtable hosting Thomas A. Bredehoft to discuss his new book, The Visible Text: Textual Production and Reproduction from Beowulf to Maus. The response from Shawn...

[On October 28, 2013 Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory held an Author's Roundtable hosting Thomas A. Bredehoft to discuss his new book, The Visible Text: Textual Production and Reproduction from Beowulf to Maus. The response from...