Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA. He is editor of the American Book Review, founding editor of the journal symploke, and executive director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Introduction: Theory in the New Millennium
Jeffrey R. Di Leo (University of Houston, Victoria, USA)

Part One: Essays1. Early Theory, Paul Allen Miller (University of South Carolina, USA)
2. Structuralism and Semiotics, Herman Rapaport (Wake Forest University, USA)
3. Narrative and Narratology, Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
4. Marxism, Peter Hitchcock (City College of New York, USA)
5. Poststructuralism, Daniel T. O'Hara (Temple University, USA)
6. Historicisms, Harold Aram Veeser (City College of New York, USA)
7. Psychoanalytic Theory, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
8. Rhetoric, Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
9. Deconstruction, Henry Sussman (Yale University, USA)
10. Feminism, Robin Truth Goodman (Florida State University, USA)
11. Cultural Studies, John Frow (University of Sydney, Australia)
12. Postmodernism, Jeffrey T. Nealon (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
13. Race and Postcolonial Studies, Nicole Simek (Whitman College, USA)
14. Ecocriticism, Claire Colebrook (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
15. Biopower and Biopolitics, Gregg Lambert (Syracuse University, USA)
16. Pop Culture, Aaron Jaffe (Florida State University, USA)
17. Comparativisms, Alexander Beecroft (University of South Carolina, USA)
18. Translation, Brian O'Keeffe (Barnard College, USA)
19. Media Studies, Toby Miller (Cardiff University, UK)
20. Digital Humanities, Joseph Tabbi (University of Illinois, Chicago, USA)
21. Late Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Canada)
22. Identity Studies, Mike Hill (State University of New York, Albany, USA)
23. Materialisms, Chris Breu (Illinois State University, USA)
24. Posthumanism, Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College, USA)
25. University Studies, Jeffrey J. Williams (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
25. Affect Studies, Sean Grattan (University of Kent, UK)
26. Antitheory, Vincent Leitch (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Part Two: Terms and Figures
Index