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.

The Michel Oren collection of Marxist Literary Group recordings contains 21 lectures given by Fredric Jameson, Stanley Aronowitz, and Terry Eagleton at the 1977 Summer Institute of the Marxist Literary Group of the Modern Language Association held in St. Cloud, Minnesota. These lectures, on 25 cassettes, were recorded by Michel Oren who attended the Institute as a graduate student.

This collection documents events, people, projects, and administration of the UC Irvine Critical Theory Institute (CTI). It comprises audio and video recordings of selected events including the Irvine Lectures in Critical Theory and the Wellek Library Lectures, as well as other lectures, conferences, and discussion sessions organized by CTI. The collection also contains several lectures given off campus by UCI faculty associated with CTI.

The Critical Theory Book Collection includes many editions by authors represented within the CTA’s papers and manuscripts. Some of the principal topics related to critical theory represented in these books include: Art and Aesthetics, Literary Criticism and History, Language and Linguistics, Deconstruction, Derridean Theory, Heideggerian Theory, Postmodernism, and Reader-Response Criticism.

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.