Reading Group: Criticism, Critique, and Trust (Spring 2023)

(2 Feb) Eve Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading” (1997/2003)

(9 Feb) Bruno Latour, “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?” (2004)

(16 Feb) Stephen Best and Sharon Marcus, “Surface Reading: An Introduction” (2009)

(23 Feb) Rita Felski, The Limits of Critique (2015), Chapter 1;

Eric Hayot, “Then and Now” (2017)

(2 Mar) Doug Battersby, “Reading Against Polemic” (2020) – special guest

(9 Mar) John Guillory Professing Criticism (2022), Preface & Chapter 3

Two-week break

(30 Mar) Guillory chapters 2 & 4

(6 Apr) Guillory chapters 5 & 6

(13 Apr) Guillory chapters 7 & 8

(20 Apr) Guillory chapter 12

(27 Apr) Guillory conclusion