
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