Vincent B. Leitch is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the Paul and Carol Daube Sutton Chair in English. He is the author of Deconstructive Criticism (1982); American Literary Criticism from the 1930s to the 1980s (1988); Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism (1992); Postmodernism—Local Effects, Global Flows (1996); Theory Matters (2003); Living with Theory (2008); American Literary Criticism Since the 1930s, 2nd edition (2010); Literary Criticism in the Twenty-First Century: Theory Renaissance (2014); and Dāngdài wénxué piping: Lī Qí wénlùn jīngxuăn (Contemporary Literary Criticism: A Leitch Reader), editor Shunzhu Wang (2014). He serves as General Editor of the Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism (2001, 2010), whose third edition is in progress.