...: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class [Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2008], Jack H. Schuster and Martin J. Finkelstein’s The American Faculty: The Restructuring of Academic Work and Careers [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006]) “The thing being made in a university is humanity...

...David R. Shumway David R. Shumway Ideas of the University (on Christopher Newfield, Ivy and Industry: Business and the Making of the American University, 1880-1980 [Durham: Duke UP, 2003]) Seemingly since the day of its publication in 1996, the book which...

...Rasma Haidri © 2017 Rasma Haidri 2017 Rasma Haidri American Fair The girl with no hands has friends to hold the cigarette to her mouth It takes two to play a winner every time Tank-topped hair-cropped steel-eyed woman slings blow-up purple...

... American University Pamphlet .” Tempe : ASU , 2008 . Blumenstyk Goldie . “ Knowledge Is ‘a Form of Venture Capital’ for a Top Columbia Administrator .” Chronicle of Higher Education ( 9 Feb. 2001 ): A29 . Bousquet Marc . How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low...

...Sophia A. McClennen This essay focuses on the role of the Left—as idea, as subject, as method, and as political praxis—in Latin American cultural studies. It briefly traces some of the key connections between Latin American cultural studies and Left politics to give readers less familiar...

... played by media in shaping them. Mexican and Cuban narratives underscored what mainstream US politics today rejects: effective government counts. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 disasters hurricane response media framing Latin American press New Orleans Works Cited Almeyra Guillermo...

...Marguerite Nguyen This article weaves together interviews, cultural studies scholarship, and a personal experience of New Orleans to interpret narratives of Vietnamese Americans in the city pre- and post-Katrina. New Orleans is home to one of the densest concentrations of Vietnamese Americans...

...Kevin González © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Kevin Gonzalez Flat American Waltz These hard plastic seats are taking us into the black air. Let's all believe in the place where the black smoke of the bus assimilates, curling up, each strand...

... Bulletin 25 ( Winter 1978-9 ): 51 - 3 . Macdonald Larry . `` The New American Movement .'' Cong. Rec. 5 Sept. 1975 : 97 - 8 . MacLean Judy . New American Movement: An Introductory Course . Chicago : New American Movement , 1976 . NIC Political Education...

...Todd J. Goddard © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Goddard 153 Todd J. Goddard The Cultural Work of Literature and the Law (on W. C. Harris, E Pluribus Unum: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Constitutional...

...John Eperjesi © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 John Eperjesi American Studies: An Interview with Donald Pease Donald Pease is a leading "New Americanist." In the 1980s, he revised the accepted idea of an American Renaissance, in particular focusing on the group of mid...

...-American Case I was recently invited to speak on a panel entitled “The Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma” as part of a conference hosted by the International Trauma Studies Program in New York. I’m a writer, and my first two novels have explored the intergenerational effects...

...Steven G. Kellman © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Works Cited Auden W. H. “ September 1, 1939 .” The Oxford Book of American Poetry . Ed. Lehman David . New York : Oxford UP , 2006 . 498 . Becker Carl . “ Every Man His Own Historian .” Presidential Address...

...Arthur Redding The figure of the fugitive woman radical has occupied a curiously important place in the American popular imagination. Early depictions of women whose political sympathies have drawn them into radical activism and terrorist plots include Susan Isaacson in E. L. Doctorow’s The Book...

... monographs in different ways speak to this transitional and contradictory period in American literary production: Stephen Schryer’s Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction (2011), Michael Szalay’s Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party...

..., the two met and discussed on national television the nature of politics and higher education, with predictable obtuseness on the part of O’Reilly. Nothing was concluded or conceded, and arguably nothing was learned. Yet both did portend a fundamental change to the operation of American political life...

... apertures through which the American body politic is projected, namely, speech acts. The stakes in examining speech acts, for which I turn to poetry and the work of Solmaz Sharif and Rob Halpern, involves thinking about the commons. For one, because liberal democratic identity revolves around a deliberative...

... and disfigured male soldiers and ex-soldiers present in twentieth-and twenty-first-century culture. The provocations of Norman Mailer, particularly his bombastic statements on race and gender, perfectly represent the still vibrantly supported belief that the basic tragedy of contemporary American life...

...Christian P. Haines; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article examines the poetry of Danez Smith as a practice of commoning. It introduces the concept of the uncommons as a way of thinking about how African American literature, culture, and political practice develop egalitarian forms...

... regarding close reading and “the New Criticism,” the movement associated with it, and at how the practice has figured in Anglo-American literary studies over the course of the past century. It turns then to how a certain idea of “close reading” has come to figure in the discourses of the digital humanities...