Critical Inquiry
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| Discipline | Humanities |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | W. J. T. Mitchell |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1974-present |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (United States) |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | Crit. Inq. |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0093-1896 |
| LCCN | 75644296 |
| JSTOR | 00931896 |
| OCLC no. | 2241746 |
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Critical Inquiry is a peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by the University of Chicago Press. While the topics and historical periods it covers are diverse CI is known as a long-standing, highly regarded critical theory driven venue for interpretive scholarship, especially but not exclusively in literature and textual criticism. It was established in 1974 by Wayne Booth, Arthur Heiserman, and Sheldon Sacks, and the current editor-in-chief is W. J. T. Mitchell.