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Critical University Studies

Date Published: November 9, 2023

The articles, special issues, and books collected in this reading list are part of a critical and complex reflection on the higher education system and knowledge production. Touching on topics of structural racism, gender, the uneven distribution of resources, coloniality, academic labor, and the effects of university financialization, the reading list provides insight into critical inquiries of the university system and its histories. It reflects on directions for future frameworks for higher education.

The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.


BOOK

The Autocratic Academy: Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn
2023


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Fighting for the Middle: Medieval Studies Programs and Degrees within Higher Education

Shokoofeh Rajabzadeh
boundary 2 50:3, 2023


JOURNAL ARTICLE

“Students’ Right to Their Own Language” and the Importance of Code-Meshing

Daryl Lynn Dance
American Speech 98:3, 2023


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Stop Trying to Make Academia Great Again: The Necessity of Solidarity and Organizing to Make Better Futures for All of Us

Robert Kilgore
Pedagogy 23:2, 2023


JOURNAL ARTICLE

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

Michael Bérubé
English Language Notes 61:1, 2023


JOURNAL ISSUE

The View from Graduate School

Jules Gill-Peterson, issue editor
Transgender Studies Quarterly 10:1, 2023


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Learning Republic: Students and Teachers from Hungary’s Theater and Film University Build an Alternative to Autocracy

Alisa Solomon
Theater 53:2, 2023


JOURNAL ARTICLE

What Does a Good Teacher Do Now?: Crafting Communities of Care

Jathan Day, Sarah Hughes, Crystal Zanders, Kathryn Van Zanen, and Andrew Moos
Pedagogy 21:3, 2021


JOURNAL ISSUE

Educational Undergrowth

Nathan Snaza and Julietta Singh, editors
Social Text 146, 2021


BOOK

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University

Matt Brim
2020


JOURNAL ARTICLE

What Is the University For?

Premesh Lalu
Critical Times 2:1, 2019


JOURNAL SECTION

Cluster on Teaching Theory in Global Contexts

Gautam Basu Thakur and Helena Gurfinkel, editors
Pedagogy 21:3, 2021


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Decolonizing Diversity: The Transnational Politics of Minority Racial Difference

Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Public Culture 31:2, 2019


BOOK

The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University

Rick Bonus
2020


BOOK

Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words

Christine R. Yano and Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka, editors
2018


JOURNAL ARTICLE

Decolonizing Trans/Gender Studies?: Teaching Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Times of the Rise of the Global Right

Alyosxa Tudor
Transgender Studies Quarterly 8:2, 2021


BOOK

Complaint!

Sara Ahmed
2021


JOURNAL ARTICLE

What's Really New about the Neoliberal University? The Business of American Education Has Always Been Business

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Labor 18:4, 2021


BOOK

Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary

Isaac A. Kamola
2019


JOURNAL SECTIONS

Against The Day: Universities As New Battlegrounds

Zeynep Gambetti and Saygun Gökarıksel, editors
South Atlantic Quarterly 121:1, 2022


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