... 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...

... discovered the trajectory whereby a number of soccer clubs originating in university settings have gradually transitioned to more flexible, professional arrangements, maintaining their institutional affiliations without a rigid insistence upon the insidious pretense of amateurism. Or, to take another...

... intellectuals are Arner 127 adjudicated to possess outstanding talent, establishing membership in a select coterie, where those with lofty pedigree are separated from those whose institutional affiliations are more common. Those whom Bourdieu and Passeron (1979: chap. 1) would identify as the elect...

... Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture, which confronts the claim that both intellectuals and the Left have declined because of professionalization within the American academy. Robbins suggests that instead of seeing institutional affiliation...

... of the profession as a whole, but as job candidates run their gauntlet of interviews and as the institutional affiliations on convention badges conjure fantasies and nightmares of alternative lives, one is vividly reminded that professors of literature struggle for all sorts of capital—economic...

... democratic principles and institutions. Along these same lines, there is increasing collective concern and political action in the name of the rule of law in many locales around the globe right now, certainly in the American political scene. While some question how much affiliative intensity...

..." program, as part of the recent trend of structural readjustment of a large, public, urban university. This readjustment replicates a pattern of managerial response across the history of US higher education: that is, the need for institutions to differentiate that mission and respond efficiently...

... people in literary and cultural studies typically cite when they want to discuss the university as an institution is Bill Readings's The University in Ruins. It would be all to the good, if Christopher Newfield's Ivy and Industry were to replace it in this role, and yet, as I will show, the two...

..., that individuals whose credentials (personal and professional) allow them Coolidge Toker 121 flexibility in and control over perceived linguistic and cultural affili- ation will manipulate their fluidity (some might call it cultural hybrid- ity) to their professional...

... and profoundly affected by how individual professors interpret their freedom to teach, conduct research, disseminate scholarship, speak in public on controversial issues, or criticize institutional policies and practices. Given that college professors use various definitions of academic freedom...

... of this term. For those whose first encounters with identity politics were within the institutional framework of the university, this book challenges campaigns such as Lynne Cheney’s attack on canon revision in the 1980s by demonstrating how our need for identity discourse has been...

... on campuses and elsewhere, not, as Michaels implies and Stanley Fish has argued, as a dishonest way to promote the interests of particular identity groups, but because people increasingly believed that institutions and individuals would benefit from heterogeneous social...

...  Paisley Livingston FICTION’S PRESENT GLOBALISM AND THEORY Donald Marshall PRACTICING DELEUZE & GUATTARI Christian Moraru AFFILIATION...

... University Professor in 1981. In the late 1970s, Smith began working on theoretical problems of value and evaluation, the focus of a year spent at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sci- ences at Stanford and another year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Articles...

..., Hopkins and her various church affiliations and pamphlets took me back to a reference to a novel, and then I tracked that down. The Yale library is really quite extraordinary and I found an awful lot of material. With much historical work, it’s on the shelves; the fact...

... traditions, in an era and institutional setting that has more generally obscured the role of the organized lefts both New and Old, helps explain the challenges cultural studies faced. In fact, my current project is as much an investigation into the nature...

... the role of the state in instan- tiating these intergenerational relations. Shifting the focus from sub- jectivities to state politics, Stevens shows how these intergenerational affiliations are maintained by appeals to kinship ties that may seem genetic but are not. In States without Nations...

.... Then word got around about what we were doing, at a time when there were museums developing around industrial history and technology. For example, the Goethe Institute invited us to Chicago to meet with museum directors from Germany in 1997-8. These museums were full of technology, but they were all...

..., and it is precisely the ease-of-use argument that contributes to what David Singh Grewal (2008) describes as the “network power” of global English: the whole system of administrative, institutional, and social procedures and protocols that have been set up to facilitate its functioning as a global linguistic...

... and as an institution. He argues that in both the US and in Britain the notion of free labor emerged as a result of a struggle between workers and employers around specific conditions in society, constrained by law and class power and other ideologies. So if you come at the race issue from the ground up like...