Publications

      Articles, Book Chapters, Introductions, Interviews, and Notes

"Teaching Theory Now." Teaching Theory, ed. Richard W. Bradford (London:  Palgrave Macmillan,
            2010).

"What I Believe and Why." minnesota review 71-72 (Winter/Spring 2009): 211-19. Special Issue
            containing Critics' Credos.

"Widening Circles:  The Postwar Critical Work of Ants Oras." Widening Circles:  The Critical
            Heritage of Ants Oras, ed. Tiina Aunin and Anne Lange (Tallinn, Estonia: TLÜ Kirjastus,
            2008):  15-32.

"Futures for Theory." Works and Days 49/50, Vol. 25, Nos. 1 & 2 (2007):  165-72. Special issue on
            the Society for Critical Exchange, edited by Patricia Harkin.

"Wenxue de quanqiuhua" (Globalization of Literatures), trans. Shunzhu Wang in Wenxue jingdian
            de jiangou, jiegou he changgou (The Construction, Deconstruction, and Reconstruction of the
            Literary Canon), ed. Tao Dongfeng (Beijing: Peking UP, 2007): 176-91.

"Late Derrida: The Politics of Sovereignty." Critical Inquiry 33.2 (Winter, 2007):  229-47.
            Special issue on “The Late Derrida." Reprinted in The Late Derrida, editors W.J.T
            Mitchell and Arnold I. Davidson (Chicago:  U of Chicago P, 2007).

Theory Futures" (Statement for Society for Critical Exchange, Modern Language Association
            Convention Session, December 2006). http://www.case.edu/affil/sce/MLA_2006.htm

"New York Intellectuals. Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics, ed. M. Keith Booker
            (Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 2005), II: 516-18.

"Theory Ends." Profession 2005. (New York: Modern Language Association, 2005): 122-28.

"Theory, Interdisciplinarity, and the Humanities Today: Interview with Vincent B. Leitch."
            InterCulture 2 (May 2005). www.fsu.edu/~proghum/interculture/homepage.html

"Cultural Studies: United States." John Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, 2nd
            ed., ed. Michael Groden, Martin Kreiswirth, and Imre Szmen (Baltimore: John Hopkins
            UP, 2005): 224-30. Co-author Mitchel Lewis. Reprinted in Hungarian translation in
            Helikon: Irodalomtudományi Szemle (Helicon: Review of General and Comparative
            Literature) 51.1-2 (2005): 102-144.

"Work Theory."  Critical Inquiry  31.2 (Winter 2005): 286-301.

"Postmodern Theory of Technology:  Agendas."  Symploke:  A Journal for the Intermingling of
            Literary, Cultural and Theoretical Scholarship  12.1-2 (2004):  1-7.

"Editing a Norton Anthology."  College English  66.2 (November 2003):  173-77. Symposium on
            Editing a Norton Anthology (172-206).  Expanded and reprinted as “Ideology of Headnotes”
            in On Anthologies:  The Politics and Pedagogy of Anthologizing, ed. Jeffrey Di Leo (Lincoln:
            U of Nebraska P, 2004). 

"Response to Reviewers."  Pedagogy:  Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language,
            Composition, and Culture  3.3 (Fall 2003):  472-73.  Roundtable Review of Norton Anthology
            of Theory and Criticism.

"Being Reviewed."  Symploke:  A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and Theoretical
            Scholarship  11.1/2 (2003).  Special Issue on Theory Trouble with Forum on Norton
            Anthology of Theory and Criticism (242-53).

"Consolidating Theory:  An Interview with Vincent B. Leitch."  minnesota review  57-58 (Fall 2003):
            45-61.

"Eesti luule ja poeetika tagasivaates:  Vestlus Vincent B. Leitchiga" ("Estonian Poetry and Poetics in
            Retrospect:  Conversation with Vincent B. Leitch”).  Vikerkaar (Rainbow) 10 (2002):  90-102.
            [Estonian journal]

"Disorganization and Death of Theory American Style.”  Hungarian Journal of English and
            American Studies  7.1 (2001):  5-9.

"Online Colloquy Live:  On The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism.”  The Chronicle of
            Higher Education, 3 May 2001. http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/05/norton/

"Kirjallisuuden- ja kulttuurintutkimus Yhdysvalloissa vuosituhannen vaihteessa:  Vincent B.
            Leitchin haastattelu" (U.S. Literary and Cultural Studies in the Twentieth-First Century:  An
            Interview with Vincent B. Leitch).  Kulttuurintutkimus (Cultural Studies)  18.1 (2001):  21-38.
            [Finnish journal]

"Island and Archive:  Favorite Contemporary Theory Texts." Genre  33.3-4 (Fall/Winter 2000):
            339-51.  Special Issue on Desert Island Texts.

"Postmodern Interdisciplinarity.”  Profession 2000.  (New York:  Modern Language Association,
            2000):  124-31.

"World Literature."  World Literature Today  74 (Autumn 2000):  790.

"On Anthology Headnotes."  Symploke:  A Journal for the Intermingling of Literary, Cultural and
            Theoretical Scholarship  8.1-2 (2000):  177-79.  Special Issue on Anthologies.

"Personal Retrospective on Theory:  Changing Paradigms from the 1960s through the 1990s."
            Massachusetts Review  40 (Spring 1999):  44-59.  Reprinted in Seeing Beyond:  Movies,
            Visions, and Values, ed. Richard P. Sugg (New York:  Golden String Press, 2001):  331-45.

"Theory Fashion."  Literature and Psychology  45.1-2 (Spring 1999):  1-6.

"Contemporary Literary and Critical Theory:  A Selected Bibliography."  The Comparative Reader:
            A Handlist of Basic Reading in Comparative Literature, ed. John T. Kirby (New Haven:
            Chancery P, 1998):  39-41.

Reprint of "Poststructuralist Cultural Critique" from Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory,
            Poststructuralism in Literature:  An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 7th ed., eds.
            X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioa (New York: Longman, 1998).

"Theory Is Not What It Used to Be."  Theory@Buffalo  (Spring 1997):  2-7.  Special Issue on Time.

"Framing Theory:  The Disorganization of Historiography."  minnesota review  41-42 (March 1995):
            75-79.  Special Issue on The Institution of Literature--States of Theory.  Reprinted in The
            Institution of Literature, ed. Jeffrey Williams (Albany: SUNY Press, 2002):  19-24.

Reprint of "Reader-Response Criticism” from American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the
            1980s, Chap. 6 and part of Chap. 7 in Readers and Reading, ed. Andrew Bennett (London:
            Longman, 1995):  32-65.

"Cultural Studies:  United States."  Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, ed.
            Michael Groden and Martin Kreiswirth (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins UP, 1994): 179-82.
            [Revision coauthored with Mitchell Lewis for second edition.]

"Feminists United:  The Dream of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar."  Making Feminist History:
            The Literary Scholarship of Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, ed. William E. Cain (New
            York:  Garland, 1994):  209-19.

"Cultural Criticism."  The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, ed. Alex Preminger,
            et al. (Princeton:  Princeton UP, 1993):  262-64.

"(De)Coding (Generic) Discourse."  Genre  24 (Spring 1991):  83-98.

"Birmingham Cultural Studies:  Popular Arts, Poststructuralism, Radical Critique."  Journal of the
            Midwest Modern Language Association  24 (Spring 1991):  74-86.  Special Issue on Cultural
            Studies and New Historicism.

"Writing Cultural History:  The Case of Post-modernism."  Feminism and Institutions:  Dialogues on
            Feminist Theory, ed. Linda Kauffman (Cambridge:  Basil Blackwell, 1989):  166-73.

"Structuralism."  American Academic Encyclopedia (Danbury, CT:  Grolier, 1989):  18, 303-04.
            Reprinted in subsequent editions.

"Taboo and Critique:  Literary Criticism and Ethics."  Association of Departments of English
            Bulletin  90 (Fall 1988):  46-52.

"Research and Education at the Crossroads:  Report on the Collège International de Philosophie."
            SubStance:  A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism  50 (1986):  101-14.

"Deconstruction and Pedagogy."  Writing and Reading Differently: Deconstruction and the
            Teaching of Composition and Literature , ed. G. Douglas Atkins and Michael L. Johnson
            (Lawrence:  UP of Kansas, 1985):  16-26.  Reprinted in Theory in the Classroom, ed. Cary
            Nelson (Urbana:  U of Illinois P, 1986):  45-56.

"Derrida's Assault on the Institution of Style."  Bucknell Review  29.2 (1985):  17-31.  Special Issue
            on Text, Interpretation, Theory.

"Institutional History and Cultural Hermeneutics."  Critical Texts  2 (July 1984):  7-11.

"Saving Poetry:  Murray Krieger's Faith in Formalism."  New Orleans Review  10 (Spring 1983):
            12-17.  Special Issue on Murray Krieger.  Reprinted in Murray Krieger and Contemporary
            Critical Theory, ed. Bruce Henricksen (New York:  Columbia UP, 1986):  29-41.

"Uku Masing."  Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth Century, rev. ed., ed. Leonard
            Klein (New York:  Ungar, 1983):  3, 240-41.

"The Semiotics of the Vanderbilt Environment:  ISISSS '81 in Review."  V. B. Leitch, co-author.
            Semiotica  42.2-4 (1982):  235-43.

"The Postmodern Poetry and Poetics of Pentti Saarikoski." Scandinavian Review  70 (December
            1982):  61-68.  Published with translations by Anselm Hollo.

"Two Poststructuralist Modes of (Inter)Textuality."  Critical Texts  2 (Fall 1982):  3-5.

"Literary Criticism for the New Era."  Mitat ja puntit:  Tutkielmia kirjallisuudesta Pekka Mattilalle
            (Weights and Measures:  Studies in Literature for Pekka Mattila), ed. I. Tiitinen, et al.,
            University of Tampere Finnish Literature Series, 18 (Tampere:  U of Tampere Publications,
            1980):  105-22.

"The Lateral Dance:  The Deconstructive Criticism of J. Hillis Miller."  Critical Inquiry  vol. 6
            (Summer 1980):  593-607.  Published with response by Miller.  Reprinted in Deconstruction:
            A Critique, ed. Rajnath (London:  Macmillan, 1989):  253-70.

Editor's Introduction, Special Issue on "Deconstructive Criticism:  Directions."  Society for Critical
            Exchange Reports  8 (Fall, 1980):  3-6. 

"Modernist Poetry:  A Phenomenological Reading of Aleksis Rannit's English Works." Journal of
            Baltic Studies  10 (Fall 1979):  187-204.

"T. S. Eliot's Poetry of Religious Desolation."  South Atlantic Bulletin  44 (May 1979):  35-44.

"The Book of Deconstructive Criticism."  Studies in the Literary Imagination  12 (Spring 1979):
            19-39.  Reprinted with postscript titled "Hermeneutics, Semiotics, and Deconstruction" in
            American Critics at Work:  Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories, ed. Victor
            Kramer (Troy, NY:  Whitston, 1984):  111-42.

Commentary on "The Function of Controversy in the Language of Critical Exchange." Society for
            Critical Exchange Reports  4 (June 1978):  27-34.

"A Primer of Recent Critical Theories."  College English  39 (October 1977):  138-52.

"Report of Research on Robert Southwell's Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares."  Yearbook of the
            American Philosophical Society 1975 (Philadelphia, 1976):  570-71.

 Introduction, Robert Southwell's Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares  (Delmar, NY:  Scholars'
            Facsimilies and Reprints, 1975):  v-xi.

"Religious Vision in Modern Poetry:  Uku Masing Compared with Hopkins and Eliot." Journal of
            Baltic Studies  5 (Winter 1974):  281-94.  Reprinted in Estonian translation in Vikerkaar
            (Rainbow)  10 (2002):  77-89.

"Myth in Ulysses:  The Whirlwind and Hosea-Bloom."  James Joyce Quarterly  10 (Winter 1973):
            267-69.

"The Ph.D. and Jobs."  Modern Language Association Newsletter  4 (September 1972):  7-8.

"Herbert's Influence in Dylan Thomas's 'I see the boys of summer.'" Notes and Queries  207
            (September 1972):  341.

"The Landscape of Hell in Paradise Lost, Book I."  Xavier University Studies  9 (Fall 1970):  26-30.