Academic Labor, Shared Governance, and the Future That Awaits Us

michael bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University. His books include What’s Liberal about the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and “Bias” in Higher Education (2006); The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments, with Jennifer Ruth (2015); The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (2016); Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up (2016), written with extensive input from Jamie himself; and It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom, with Jennifer Ruth (2022). He has also published two edited collections, Higher Education under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities, with Cary Nelson (1995), and The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (2005).