FAQs - CTI General

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How do I contact the CTI or any of its members?
Our mailing address, fax and phone numbers are listed on our home page.
Our Office Manager, Lisa Ness, may be contacted at lness@uci.edu, 949-824-5583 and our
current Director, Mark S. Poster, at poster@uci.edu or 949-824-6338.
Most members' email addresses are provided on our Members page.
Questions or comments about our web site or brochures should be addressed to our current Graduate Student Researcher, Sean Hill, at ctigsr@uci.edu.

Where is the CTI?
The CTI is located in 433 Krieger Hall at the University of California, Irvine Campus. Directions to Krieger Hall are available at UCI's campus map.

Who are the CTI members?
The CTI consists of a collaborative research group of an average of 15 to 20 active UCI faculty from a variety of disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Please see our current members page and individual member profiles for more information.

How do members join the CTI?
The CTI membership periodically reviews new faculty working in critical theory at UCI and selects new members on the basis of publication records as well as diversity of fields and disciplines.

Does the CTI offer any classes?
What is CTI’s relation to the Critical Theory Emphasis program?
The CTI operates as a non-curricular, collaborative research institute. However, it works closely with the Critical Theory Emphasis Program, which offers various seminars as well as year-long workshops on Critical Theory topics; various members of the CTI serve or have served on the CTE core committee, many have taught advanced courses in Critical Theory in the Emphasis, or directed the annual Emphasis-workshop. Further information concerning the Emphasis is available at (949) 824-6720 or showler@uci.edu.

What is the Critical Theory Archive? Where is the Critical Theory Archive?
The UCI Critical Theory Archive is housed in Special Collections in the UCI Main Library . The Archive includes collections of manuscripts and other personal papers of prominent theorists including CTI members Jacques Derrida, Wolfgang Iser, and J. Hillis Miller, as well as Paul de Man, Stanley Fish, Ihab Hassan, Murray Krieger, René Wellek, among others.Further information is available at UCI Critical Theory Archive information. Directions are available at UCI's campus map.