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Global English. Sometimes called "Anglophone Studies," this is an area in which the department has some strength but not great strength. We identify it as an area of need because in our opinion it promises to become increasingly important and intellectually vital in the future. Click here Call for Papers: The Renaissance Studies Program of the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites paper and session proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on "Freedom of Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" to be held at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center on the UCSB Campus, February 18-19, 2000. Click here Critical Theory. This is an area of strength in the department which includes many faculty who have interests in such areas as psychoanalytic, marxist, gender, queer, and race theory, as well as those concerned with philosophical approaches to literature, with historicity, and with the history of criticism. Click here Historicity and Historical Studies. We understand this to include the theory of historical studies as well as various historical practices. This area is of particular concern at a moment when various forms of "presentism" threaten to obliterate historical memory. Click here Contemporary Theory and Culture. We understand this to include issues related to both material and literary culture and such matters as the study of theoretical issues related to gender and minority discourses of various kinds. We also understand this to encourage research groups concerned with various aspects of symbolic culture within both local and global contexts. Click here The Public Humanities. Particular topics in this arena would focus on the place of the humanities in the public sphere both now and in the future and might include the intersection of literary studies with such other disciplinary areas as cognitive science, information science, and social science. Click here