... that we begin to consider academic institutions through lenses less focused on the production of measurable knowledge and more attentive to the practice of teaching as an end in itself. He invites readers to imagine alternatives to current academic institutions, challenging us to envision better...

...Tuija Pulkkinen This essay concerns the contingent and pluralized history of feminist institutions in academia, arguing against two commonly misconstrued oppositions: first, that between the feminist movement and feminist academic institutions; and second, that between the feminist focus on gender...

.... Stories of inhospitality from within are evoked—from within the academic sphere, (post) colonial French society, and the French Parliament—offering paradoxes to French universalism. This essay addresses the presence and possibility of feminism/s as alternative and transnational territories and questions...

... and becoming happy, successful citizens. Focusing on the persistent stereotype that associates academics and intellectuals (particularly in the humanities) with overanalysis, the essay offers a critique of the anti-intellectual conventions that underlie denunciations of overanalysis. It also demonstrates how...

... indulged at the expense of dedicated critiques of digital humanities’ projects, as well as its papers, publications, syllabi, and so forth. We inhabit the construct when we forego these normative products of academic labor in favor of the terrible things in the title of this article, things that are said...

...Dong Limin This essay examines the ways a gender studies perspective has been applied in Chinese academic reflections on China’s socialist culture and practice during the so-called Seventeen-Year Period, which spanned from the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 to the beginning...

... policy. To investigate the reverberations of such contemporary political and academic investments in drug-war-fueled repair, the article focuses on a recent wave of black fiction and film that reenvisions the 1980s War on Drugs in the era of the opioid epidemic, with particular attention to Barry...

... change the material conditions or the power relations between professional academics and the marginal subjects they study. The refusal of social scientific methods undermines queer scholars’ claims to interdisciplinarity. While queer studies has understood itself alternately as interdisciplinary...

... cultural operations with and against academic ones, the varying epistemological, pedagogical, textual, affective, and political implications of this entertainment/educational trend emerge most sharply. © 2019 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2019 trigger...

...Kari Weil Theory has gone to the birds . . . and to apes, dogs, and horses. The recent explosion of writing and teaching on animals has recharged those questions of identity and difference, of power and its effects that have embroiled academic theory over the past quarter century. Even trauma...

...Geraldine Heng The Assassins of Alamut are presented in popular media and academic studies as the eleventh-century forerunners of today’s “suicide terrorists,” thus producing a genealogy of spectacular Middle Eastern suicide-homicides that stretches back some nine hundred years. “Sex, Lies...

...Fiona M. Barnett The question of “what counts?” in a field is an important component of community formation and is critical for eking out resources in the academic ecosystem. But what is the effect when the conversation is not about recognizing similarity across differences or disparity in order...

... to this essay a growing tension, between the outlooks and prospects of DH faculty and graduate students and those of faculty and graduate students in the mainstream humanities. This divide is not only economic but theoretical as well. Put most starkly, academics on the left blame the crisis in the humanities...

... contexts, a portioning off that also plays out in the increasing specialization of academic fields and even in the formation of many modes of identity politics. We need conceptual models for the digital humanities and for digital media studies that integrate theory and practice as well as technology...

...Adi Ophir The faculty of the humanities has recently come under attack. Responding to criticism, many of those who care for the faculty insist on the social benefits of the academic disciplines and modes of inquiry that find shelter under its aegis. This article takes the opposite view. Rejecting...

... and include subsequent scholarship and activism as a member of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa in the early 1990s. Consisting of journal entries, short articles, and drafts, the writings provide first-hand accounts of the effects of structural adjustment and military government repression...

... that persists as the haunting answer to this question makes legible the anxiety at the heart of academic feminism’s chief rhetorical strategy, the critical claim, which generates value by promising to carry thought beyond the failure of the present...

... (University of Chicago Press, 2005). “Academic Bill of Rights.” David Horowitz. “In Defense of Intellectual Diversity.” Chronicle of Higher Education 13 Feb. 2004.< http://www.aaup.org >. Baudelaire, Charles. “Salon de 1846.” In Curiosités ésthetiques . Ed. H. Lemaitre. Paris: Garnier, 1962...

... and to deactivate others. (3) How does identifying oneself or being identified as a feminist scholar affect one's position within the university as a system ofpower relations? Have the d fferences 55 academy's "strategies of containment" changed in significant ways since you began your academic career? Has...

...- servative political orientation proved insuperable obstacles to collaboration with liberal Stratfordian academics like John Matthews Manly, chair of the Department of English at the University of Chicago and 1920 president...