In the low-budget realm of humanities grantmaking, a University of Virginia press release this May came as a shock. The Danish National Research Foundation had awarded roughly $4.2 million to a ...

T he University of Virginia English professor Rita Felski had been a well-known name for going on three decades when The Limits of Critique (2015) made her ubiquitous — an inevitable ally, or foil, in ...

Why do textbooks of literary theory avoid the concept of experience? And does the postcritical interest in literary experience imply a rejection of interpretation, politics, and theory, as its critics ...

Rita Felski, the William R. Kenan Professor at the University of Virginia, will be giving a talk titled, "Crrrritique": An Investigation of the Limits of Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion," ...

University of Virginia English professor Rita Felski encouraged her fellow scholars to explore alternatives to increasingly predictable and formulaic styles of “suspicious reading” in her 2015 book, ...

A talk by Professor Rita Felski, IHSS Visiting Fellow, hosted by Professors Scott McCracken and Matt Rubery in the School of English and Drama. Why do textbooks of literary theory avoid the concept of ...