Papers and Manuscripts

In the 1970s, Wolfgang Iser established himself as one of the leading figures in literary theory with such works as Der implizite Leser (1974, English ed. The Implie

Renée Riese Hubert was Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. This collection consists of his publications and other papers. The collection includes artists' books, publications about artists' books, including art exhibition and artists' catalogs, journals, books, and publishers' catalogs, correspondence, and clippings. Materials are in English and French.

This collection comprises research notes and correspondence from Neil Hertz' and Tom Kennan's 1988 research trip to Belgium to gather information for Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism (1989).

Ihab Habib Hassan was a prominent critic, scholar, and theorist in the academic study of literature. While focusing his scholarship on the post-war novel, he was among the first to articulate a concept of "the postmodern." This collection documents the academic work of the literary critic, scholar, and theorist. The bulk of these materials reflect his work on American fiction of the later twentieth century, in addition to his extensive writings on postmodernism, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

This collection documents Stanley Fish's professional career as a literary theorist and academic. Materials are largely textual--including primarily drafts of his writings, publications, and clippings and photocopies for teaching and research purposes--and range in coverage from his early student work to his most recent professional activities and publications. The collection also includes a limited amount of correspondence, digital material, and many audio recordings, the latter of which document his activities as a public intellectual and teacher.

Eugenio Donato, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, at the University of California, Irvine, was an Armenian-Italian literary critic, particularly noted for his work on The Structuralist Controversy: The Languages of Criticism and the Science of Man (1970) with Richard Macksey. This collection contains publications, manuscripts, notes, annotat

Best known for the development of "deconstruction," Jacques Derrida was trained as a philosopher, but his work engages and transverses numerous other discourses such as literature, politics, law, religion, psychoanalysis, and ethnography. Ranging from his early work as a student to his recent seminars, the material in the archive spans from circa 1946 to 2000. This collection is comprised of manuscripts, typescripts, recordings, photographs, and an extensive clippings file documenting his professional career.

Paul de Man was a prominent and influential literary critic, scholar, and teacher best known as one of the principle theorists behind an approach to literary texts that became known as deconstruction. This collection contains the personal and professional papers documenting his career as a scholar and literary theorist in the field of comparative literature, and as an academic in the United States.

Barbara Cohen was the director of HumaniTech program at the University of California, Irvine’s School of the Humanities, and the co-editor of Provocations to Reading: J. Hillis Miller and the Democracy to Come (2005) along with Dragan Kujundžić, Professor of Germanic and Slavic Studies at the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Étienne Balibar is best known as a Marxist philosopher and political theorist focused on historical materialism, critical theory, ethics, and political philosophy. This collection is mainly comprised of his manuscripts and research materials. As a student of Louis Althusser at the École Normale Supérieure from 1960 to 1965, Balibar contributed to Althusser’s collective theoretical work Reading Capital (1965).