After Poststructuralism: Interdisciplinary and Literary Theory challenges the premises of and suggests new alternatives to the more extreme approaches in current literary theory. The essays collected here examine the trend of "theorizing" in interdisciplinary studies from the perspective of more rigorous research methodologies, with the aim of establishing the validity of interdisciplinary literary studies and broadening the field of inquiry.

Nancy Easterlin is assistant professor of English at the University of New Orleans.

Barbara Riebling is a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Frederick Crews is chairman of the English Department at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Skeptical Engagements and The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy.