The Culture & Theory Ph.D. Program is pleased to announce the Black Studies Graduate Cluster Admission Initiative for students starting in Fall 2021.
The Ph.D. programs in Comparative Literature, Culture & Theory, English, and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine are committed to the movement for Black lives. We believe that researching, critiquing and redressing the legacies of slavery and anti-blackness that continue to shape our society, here in the United States and the world over, are crucial to the ongoing struggle for racial justice and Black thriving. That is why, for the next academic year (2021-2022), we will be admitting an interdisciplinary cluster of Black Studies graduate students to our doctoral programs.
Our coalition of humanities doctoral programs, anchored by the School of Humanities’ Critical Theory Emphasis, will provide additional funding and resources to support students interested in Black thought, literature, and media; histories of Black resistance movements and freedom struggle, domestic and international; comparative histories of race and racialization; and critical theories of anti-Blackness, colonialism, and violence. We are particularly interested in fostering Black studies scholarship that creatively mobilizes the resources of critical theory to reveal the entanglement of modern political and aesthetic traditions with anti-Blackness and that forges truly new political imaginaries, activist strategies, and cultural narratives.
The deadline to apply to Culture & Theory has been extended to December 15, 2020. Feel free to contact Dr. Sora Han, Director of Graduate Study, if you have any questions or need more information as you consider applying to Culture & Theory. If you are interested in applying to our partner doctoral programs listed above, please contact those programs’ Directors of Graduate Study.
Culture & Theory will hold a drop-in application workshop on December 8, 2020, at 4pm PST. Please email Arielle Hinojosa-Garcia to RSVP and secure the Zoom link. We hope to see many of you then!
The Ph.D. programs in Comparative Literature, Culture & Theory, English, and Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine are committed to the movement for Black lives. We believe that researching, critiquing and redressing the legacies of slavery and anti-blackness that continue to shape our society, here in the United States and the world over, are crucial to the ongoing struggle for racial justice and Black thriving. That is why, for the next academic year (2021-2022), we will be admitting an interdisciplinary cluster of Black Studies graduate students to our doctoral programs.
Our coalition of humanities doctoral programs, anchored by the School of Humanities’ Critical Theory Emphasis, will provide additional funding and resources to support students interested in Black thought, literature, and media; histories of Black resistance movements and freedom struggle, domestic and international; comparative histories of race and racialization; and critical theories of anti-Blackness, colonialism, and violence. We are particularly interested in fostering Black studies scholarship that creatively mobilizes the resources of critical theory to reveal the entanglement of modern political and aesthetic traditions with anti-Blackness and that forges truly new political imaginaries, activist strategies, and cultural narratives.
The deadline to apply to Culture & Theory has been extended to December 15, 2020. Feel free to contact Dr. Sora Han, Director of Graduate Study, if you have any questions or need more information as you consider applying to Culture & Theory. If you are interested in applying to our partner doctoral programs listed above, please contact those programs’ Directors of Graduate Study.
Culture & Theory will hold a drop-in application workshop on December 8, 2020, at 4pm PST. Please email Arielle Hinojosa-Garcia to RSVP and secure the Zoom link. We hope to see many of you then!