The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, 3rd Edition

Vincent B. Leitch is Professor Emeritus at the University of Oklahoma. A foremost historian of contemporary literary criticism and theory, he is the author of the standard history, American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s as well as Deconstructive Criticism, Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Local Effects, Global Flows, Theory Matters, Living with Theory, and American Literary Criticism since the 1930s, 2nd edition.

William E. Cain is the Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College. A scholar of American literature and American literary criticism, Professor Cain is the author of The Crisis in Criticism: Theory, Literature, and Reform in English Studies, F. O. Matthiessen and the Politics of Criticism, and Literary Criticism, 1900-1950: The Cambridge History of American Literature as well as the editor or co-editor of several college textbooks, including An Introduction to Literature, American Literature, The Little, Brown Reader, and Literature for Composition.

Laurie A. Finke is Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies program at Kenyon College. A prominent medievalist and feminist critic, Professor Finke is the author of Cinematic Illuminations: The Middle Ages on Film, King Arthur and the Myth of History, Feminist Theory, Women’s Writing and Women’s Writing in English: The Middle Ages and the editor of Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers.

John McGowan is the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A leading critic of postmodernism and social theories relating to literature, he is the author of Postmodernism and its Critics, Hannah Arendt: A Critical Introduction, Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics, and American Liberalism: An Interpretation for Our Time, and editor (with Craig Calhoun) of Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics.

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting is Professor of French, Professor and Director of African American and Diaspora Studies, and Director of the W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt University. A leading scholar in Black European Studies and comparative Black Diaspora literatures and cultures and theories of race and feminism, she is the author of Pimps Up, Ho’s Down: Hip Hop’s Hold on Young Black Women, Negritude Women, Black Venus: Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive Narratives in French, and Frantz Fanon: Conflicts and Feminisms, and she has edited or co-edited five books, including The Speech: Race and Barack Obama’s “A More Perfect Union”.

Jeffrey J. Williams is Professor of English and of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the English Tradition and the editor of PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy, The Institution of Literature, and Critics at Work: Interviews. He has also published journalism in venues such as The Village Voice, Dissent, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Since 1992, he has been the editor of the literary and critical journal, the minnesota review.