Research Guides: LIT 4310: Literary Theory: Cultural Studies

Key Theorists in Cultural Studies

Explore these main theorists and figures in cultural studies:

Roland Barthes
Walter Benjamin
Ian Bogost
Susan Bordo
Marc Bousquet
Rosi Braidotti
Rey Chow
Frantz Fanon
Michel Foucault
Paul Gilroy
Antonio Gramsci
Jurgen Habermas
Judith Jack Halberstam

Stuart Hall
Donna Haraway
Dick Hebdige
Max Horkheimber and Theodor W. Adorno
E. Ann Kaplan
Bruno Latour
Laura Mulvey
Alondra Nelson
Andrew Ross
Edward W. Said
Raymond Williams
Slavoj Zizek

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Books on Cultural Theory

Learn more about cultural theory with these books (keeping in mind, these are not primary theoretical sources):

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory by Peter Barry
Call #: MAIN 801.95 B281B4

Publication Date: 2017
Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide by Michael Groden; Martin Kreiswirth; Imre Szeman
Call #: MAIN 801.95 C761

Publication Date: 2012
Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts by Peter Sedgwick & Andrew Edgar (Editors)
Call #: REF 306.01 C968

Publication Date: 2007
Literary and Cultural Theory: From Basic Principles to Advanced Applications by Donald E. Hall
Call #: MAIN 801.95 H175L

Publication Date: 2000
Culture/Metaculture
(New Critical Idiom Series) by Francis Mulhern
Call #: OhioLINK

Publication Date: 2000