Cultural Studies(文化研究)
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
- Susan Bordo (1947-)
- Michel de Certeau (1925-1986)
- Guy Debord (1931-1994)
- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
- John Fiske (1939-2021)
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
- Jürgen Habermas (1929-)
- Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
- Donna Haraway (1944-)
- Dick Hebdige (1951-)
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
- Adam Krims (1970-)
- Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991)
- Laura Mulvey (1941-)
- Edward W. Said (1935-2003)
- Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
- Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
Deconstruction and Poststructuralism(解构与后结构主义)
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
- Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007)
- Homi K. Bhabha (1949-)
- Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
- Judith Butler (1956-)
- Hélène Cixous (1937-)
- Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
- Paul de Man (1919-1983)
- Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
- Félix Guattari (1930-1992)
- Barbara Johnson (1947-2009)
- Julia Kristeva (1941-)
- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-)
Feminism(女性主义)
- Paula Gunn Allen (1939-)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
- Susan Bordo (1947-)
- Judith Butler (1956-)
- Hélène Cixous (1937-)
- Sandra M. Gilbert (1936-)
- Susan Gubar (1944-)
- Donna Haraway (1944-)
- Geraldine Heng (1960-)
- Coppélia Huber Kahn (1939-)
- Luce Irigaray (1932-)
- Annette Kolodny (1941-2019)
- Audre Lorde (1934-1992)
- Kate Millett (1934-2017)
- Laura Mulvey (1941-)
- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
- Gayle Rubin (1949-)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-)
- Jane Tompkins (1940-)
- Monique Wittig (1935-2003)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
Formalism and New Criticism (俄国形式主义和英美新批评)
- Monroe C. Beardsley (1915-1985)
- Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994)
- Kenneth Burke (1897-1993)
- Boris Eichenbaum (1886-1959)
- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
- John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974)
- Viktor Shklovsky (1893-1984)
- William K. Wimsatt Jr. (1907-1975)
Gay and Lesbian Criticism and Queer Theory(同性恋研究和酷儿理论)
- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
- Judith Butler (1956-)
- Michael Moon (1969-)
- Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
- Gayle Rubin (1949-)
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950-)
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith (1932-)
- Monique Wittig (1935-2003)
- Bonnie Zimmerman (1947-)
- Judith Halberstam (Jack Halberstam, 1961-)
Marxism(马克思主义与西方马克思主义)
- Theodor W. Adorno (1903-1969)
- Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
- Guy Debord (1931-1994)
- Friedrich Engels (1820-1895)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
- Stuart Hall (1932-2014)
- Donna Haraway (1944-)
- Dick Hebdige (1951-)
- Max Horkheimer (1895-1973)
- Fredric Jameson (1934-)
- Asger Jorn (1914-1973)
- György Lukács (1885-1971)
- Pierre Macherey (1938-)
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
- Alan Sinfield (1941-2017)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-)
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
- Raymond Williams (1921-1988)
- Edmund Wilson (1895-1972)
- Slavoj Žižek (1949-)
New Historicism (新历史主义)
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
- Stephen Greenblatt (1943-)
- Steven Knapp (1951-)
- Walter Benn Michaels (1948-)
- Hayden White (1929-2018)
Phenomenology and Hermeneutics(现象学与阐释学)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)
- Franz Brentano (1838-1917)
- Mikel Dufrenne (1910-1995)
- Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- E. D. Hirsch Jr. (1928-)
- Edmund Husserl (1869-1938)
- Roman Ingarden (1893-1970)
- Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007)
- Hans Robert Jauss (1921-1997)
- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961)
- Georges Poulet (1902-1991)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Postcolonial Theory and Criticism(后殖民主义)
- Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
- Homi K. Bhabha (1949-)
- Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020)
- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
- Jamaica Kincaid (1949-)
- Taban lo Liyong (1939- )
- Anne McClintock (1955-)
- Henry Owuo-Anyumba (1932-1992)
- Edward W. Said (1935-2003)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942-)
- Nguigi wa Thiong’O (1938-)
Psychoanalysis and Psychology (精神分析和心理学)
- Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
- Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
- Judith Butler (1956-)
- Nancy Chodorow (1944-)
- Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961)
- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
- Sandra M. Gilbert (1936-)
- Félix Guattari (1930-1992)
- Susan Gubar (1944-)
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
- Bessel van der Kolk (1943-)
- Julia Kristeva (1941-)
- Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)
- Laura Mulvey (1941-)
Race and Ethinicity Studies(种族和民族研究)
- Paula Gunn Allen (1939-)
- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004)
- Houston A. Baker Jr. (1943-)
- Barbara Christian (1943-2000)
- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963)
- Shelley Fisher Fishkin (1950-)
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950-)
- bell hooks (Gloria Jean Watkins, 1952-2021)
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
- Lisa Lowe (1961-)
- Barbara Herrnstein Smith (1932-)
- Gerald Vizenor (1934-)
Reader-Response Theory(读者反应理论)
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
- Stanley E. Fish (1938-)
- Wolfgang Iser (1926-2007)
- Hans Robert Jauss (1921-1997)
- Georges Poulet (1902-1991)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Structuralism, Semiotics, and Narratology(结构主义、符号学和叙事学)
- Louis Althusser (1918-1990)
- Roland Barthes (1915-1980)
- Seymour Chatman (1928-)
- Jonathan Culler (1944-)
- Michel Foucault (1926-1984)
- Northrop Frye (1912-1991)
- Roman Jakobson (1896-1982)
- Vladimir Propp (1895-1970)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009)
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913)
- Tzvetan Todorov (1939-)
- Hayden White (1929-2018)