Recent Cultural Critics

Angela McRobbie

1. British cultural theorist

2. Feminist

3. commentator

4. Professor of Communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

5. Her work combines the study of popular culture, contemporary media practices and feminism.

6. Her most recent book - The Aftermath of Feminism.

7. Article- "Settling Accounts with Subculture. A Feminist Critique."

8. Essay- "Shut Up and Dance: Youth Culture and Changing Modes of Femininity" where she analysed the paradoxes.

9. Work- The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change.

Donna J. Haraway

1. American Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department and Feminist Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, United States.

2. A prominent scholar in the field of science and technology studies, described in the early 1990s as a "feminist, rather loosely a postmodernist".

3. Most influential work- "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1985)

4. Leading scholar in contemporary ecofeminism, associated with post-humanism and new materialism movements

Linda Hutcheon

1. Canadian academic working in the fields of literary theory and criticism, opera, and Canadian studies.

2. University Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and of the Centre for Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto.

3. In 2000 elected as the 117th President of the Modern Language Association, the third Canadian to hold this position, and the first Canadian woman. She is particularly known for her influential theories of postmodernism.

4. Work

The Politics of Postmodernism (Routledge, 1989), A Poetics of Postmodernism (Routledge, 1988), and Rethinking Literary History (OUP, 2002). She also edited influential texts on post-modernity, chief among them being A Postmodern Reader (SUNY, 1993), co-edited with Joseph P. Natoli.