Critical Inquiry Critical Inquiry
The Critical Inquiry Professorship
Since 2003, the Critical Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professorship has been held by some of the world’s most renowned scholars. The CI Professor is in residence at the University of Chicago for an academic quarter, where he or she teaches a graduate seminar and offers two public lectures.
Our Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor for 2011-2012 is Leo Bersani, Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California a Berkeley. Starting this year, videos and podcasts of the lectures will be available here on the CI website.
Past holders of the CI Professorship are:
Joan Copjec 2009-2010
Future CI Professors
The Critical Inquiry Professor for 2012–2013 will be Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University.
The Critical Inquiry Professor for 2013–2014 will be Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.
