A brief way to conceptualize the methodology of the Human Sciences Program is to think of it as triangulated into three principles/practices: hermeneutical and epistemological analysis, textual analysis, and analysis and critique of culture and society. One can see how specific disciplinary methodologies come first to mind for each of these practices: Philosophy for the first, literary disciplines for the second, and Anthropology and Sociology for the third. But one quickly sees, as well, that these methodologies are not fixed in one discipline. Disciplinary concerns and methodologies are widely shared and continually reinterpreted within new contexts: as, for instance, hermeneutical and epistemological rigor is applied to a wide variety of social and cultural concerns, as textuality is extended not only from written to spoken modes but to visual and oral-aural (including potentially musical) modes, or as social and cultural formations are reconceived as sites where texts are produced and consumed. A strength of the Program is that it not only joins these areas of common interest and practice and thus remains attentive to their complex interrelation, but also centers them in historical depth (as regards especially, but not only, Western traditions) and in cross-cultural inquiry and comparison.