Marxist cultural critic Fredric Jameson offered a philosophy of late capitalism that gave us a language for talking about globalization and the end of modernism.

The experience and work of motherhood remained understudied for generations, but since the 1970s, scholars have engaged with the topic in diverse ways.

Critical race theory has become a focus of conservative legislation, often with little understanding of its meaning and history.

A wave of academic periodicals devoted to theory started appearing in the 1970s. Criticism wasn't far behind.

The literary critic Walter Benn Michaels challenges the prevailing trends of postmodernist theory.