Introduction / Stephen Greenblatt and Giles Gunn
Medieval studies / Anne Middleton
Renaissance/early modern studies / Leah S. Marcus
Seventeenth-century studies / William Kerrigan
Eighteenth-century studies / John Bender
Romantic studies / Frances Ferguson
Victorian studies / George Levine
Modernist studies / Marjorie Perloff
Postmodernist studies / John Carlos Rowe
American literary studies to the Civil War / Cecelia Tichi
American literary and cultural studies since the Civil War / Philip Fisher
Feminist criticism / Catharine R. Stimpson
Gender criticism / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
African American criticism / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Marxist criticism / Walter Cohen
Psychanalytic criticism / Meredith Skura
Deconstruction / Deborah Esch
New historicisms / Louis Montrose
Cultural criticism / Gerald Graff and Bruce Robbins
Postcolonial criticism / Homi K. Bhabha
Composition studies / Richard Marius
Composition and literary studies / Donald McQuade.