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Following an excursus into the world of poststructuralist theory at Yale and in Paris, he switched his field to political science and received his Ph.D. from Harvard’s government department.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 27, 2018

But I warn you now: You’ll have to have patience for her occasional name-checking of people like Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak and other grandes dames of the poststructuralist and postcolonialist canon.

From New York Times • May 22, 2016

However, the two Jacques, Derrida and Lacan, and their poststructuralist creed only come up in passing—Battles delights in the actual human experience, not recreational abstraction.

From Slate • Aug. 4, 2015

In the late 20th century, however, the field of cultural studies, a discipline springing out of poststructuralist theory, seized upon everything from Madonna to “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” as fodder for academic work.

From Salon • May 25, 2012

Robyn, ever the teacher, expounds poststructuralist literary theory to him in bed, explaining that what he mistakes for love is merely a rhetorical device, a bourgeois fallacy.

From Time Magazine Archive