... tend to be from one small sector of PhD-granting institutions; the enormous preference for elite affiliation in these hiring competitions has stratified the discipline to the point that just 1 percent of faculty at top-ranked English departments are graduates from the so-called bottom 75 percent of PhD...

...-2005 contract was a historic one, since it marked the first successful unionization effort by graduate assistants at a private university in U.S. history. During the period governed by the contract, compensation for teaching and stipends rose an average of 40%. (In the English Department...

... P , 2008 . ---. “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible.” Social Text 20 . 1 ( 2002 ): 81 - 104 . Conley John . “Against Heroism.” In this issue . Lukács Georg . “Class Consciousness.” 1920 . History and Class Consciousness...

...-Committed Academic Labor Graduate workers have enough professional organizations—what we need are unions that win gains and exert collective worker power on the job.1 Organizing graduate workers’ unions that can do these things also necessitates reorganizing our relationships...

... . Bloom Allan . The Closing of the American Mind . New York : Penguin , 1988 . Bousquet Marc . “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible.” Social Text 70 ( Spring 2002 ): 81 - 104 . Boyer Ernest L. Scholarship Reconsidered...

... in the humanities. He disabused received wisdom about the job market, showing how its depressed state resulted not from a natural cycle but from deliberate strategies, in his essay, “The Waste Product of Graduate Education: Toward a Dictatorship of the Flexible” (Social Text 70 [2002 And he has exposed...

... from Working-Class Backgrounds . Westport, CT : Praeger . Guillory John . 2000 . “ The System of Graduate Education .” PMLA . 115 , no. 5 : 1154 – 63 . Haney Timothy J. 2016 . “ ‘We’re All Middle Class Here’: Privilege and the Denial of Class Inequality in the Canadian...

....” —Wendell Berry Few among the tenured classes would describe graduate students as faculty members, yet a significant proportion of them perform many, if not most, of the necessary professional functions requisite for such recognition. But in the eyes of the law neither graduate...

... by Fred Jameson, Terry Eagleton, and Stanley Aronowitz, and various other people would give presentations in the afternoons. I think I was the most junior person there, the only person who wasn’t a graduate student or a faculty member. Cohen How did you end up...

... Scholarship (1966-69), migrated to Oxford for his graduate work in modern languages (BPhil, 1968; DPhil, 1972). He taught at Cambridge and Oxford until 1977, when he joined the faculty of Cornell, where he has remained and where he is Class of 1916 Professor of English...

... Orleans gentrification cities class race disaster Works Cited Benton Thomas H. 2009 . “ Graduate School in the Humanities: Just Don’t Go .” Chronicle of Higher Education , January 30 . chronicle.com/article/Graduate-School-in-the/44846 . Campanella Richard . 2013...

..., Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle (Princeton UP, 2002). Born in Washington, DC, in 1960, Anderson attended college at Dartmouth (BA, 1981), moving to Cornell University for graduate work (MA, 1988; PhD, 1989). She taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1989 to 1999, when...

...-ten graduate school in your field, you probably taught several classes a year as a graduate student, usually while researching, publishing, and doing substantial service to the profession—writing book reviews, supervising other faculty and students, serving on committees, etc. Call...

... and Professional Education for New York State, presiding over the creation of the SUNY system, and later became president of the University of Florida. After a BA at Oberlin College in 1948, and despite an onset of polio while he was first in graduate school, which disabled his right arm, Miller...

.... The former graduate student who abandoned the profession years earlier may find her enthusiasm rekindled by a conversation with no professional stakes. A room full of academic impostors with no hizzoner in sight is almost enough to believe that what John Holbo, founder...

... as a graduate student and in the first couple of years of my teaching, in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Sartre. My orientation was existentialist and, at that time, I thought that this postmodern moment Spanos Interview 49 had...

... of the outside world—if it ever existed, exists no more. Higher education in this country is a colossal industry, increasingly ruled by the imperatives of the marketplace. Academic freedom is threatened, not by graduate student assistants (GAs) demanding input into decisions that affect their working...

..., a Scrambled Abecedarian.” Ross Losapio is a New Jersey native and graduate of Loyola Univer- sity Maryland. Currently, he attends the MFA program at Virginia Commonwealth University. His poems have appeared in Interrobang?! Magazine, Naugatuck River Review, Milk Money, and the Emerson Review, among...

.../ns6364/iae_ns6364_superserviceablefeminism.shtml >. Mason Mary Ann . “A Bad Reputation: Why are more and more graduate students turning away from careers at research universities?” The Chronicle of Higher Education 27 Jan. 2009 . < http://chronicle.com/jobs/news/2009/01...

... Road Press, 2009). A graduate of Harvard Law School and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he is currently a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Claire Barwise graduated from the University of Montana, and received her MFA from the University of Florida. She is a MacDowell...