... 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...

... 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 in their...

...Jennie Lightweis-Goff Within days of the breach of the levees in New Orleans, a second man-made disaster—the “recovery” efforts—began to transform the city’s institutions, leaving many urban partisans afraid that New Orleans would be rebuilt along the model of other, more expensive, less habitable...

... them in a more doubtful light, Brennan looks at various theoretical moments of the immediate past: for example, the “subaltern,” the “multitude,” and the post-human. He observes along the way that the humanities themselves, paradoxically, have become the institution devoted to showing the absurdity of...

... 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...

... Finkelstein observe, “One’s position in the institutional prestige hierarchy has tended to mirror quite faithfully the socioeconomic background of one’s family of origin” (65). As such, the high bar to professional entry and the long struggle associated with...

... of Remediation: Institutional and Student Needs in Higher Education , Pittsburgh : U of Pittsburgh P , 2002 . Soliday Mary Gleason Barbara . “ From Remediation to Enrichment: Evaluating a Mainstreaming Project .” Journal of Basic Writing 16 : 1 ( 1997 ). 64-78. Shaughnessy...

... professionalization within the American academy. Robbins suggests that instead of seeing institutional affiliation and professionalism as “betrayals” of the higher purposes of intellectual life, we should reconcile ourselves to these as inevitable social facts. Instead of imagining the...

... publication in 1996, the book which 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...

... who are dedicated to liberal democratic culture and institutions have an obligation to scrutinize the political landscape for any forms of exclusion that vitiate the ideals that undergird that culture. I do not think that exclusions are hard-wired into liberal...

... British and American, which not only gave this academic field its politics, but provided its groundbreaking vision of culture. The fraught existence of these (New) left political traditions, in an era and institutional setting that has more generally obscured the role of...

... 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 a fundamental aspect of everyday life since the...

... PRESENT GLOBALISM AND THEORY Donald Marshall PRACTICING DELEUZE & GUATTARI Christian Moraru AFFILIATION  THEORY TROUBLE Jeffrey Nealon...

... perceived linguistic and cultural affili- ation will manipulate their fluidity (some might call it cultural hybrid- ity) to their professional and personal advantage, making that very hybridity a central aspect of their identity, above any of the (national/ linguistic) affiliations available to them...

... Arabic now, the more convenient “direct route” would be through English, 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...

... deal of European and Asian, through” that square little airport, thereby providing an institutional site which would insulate the writer from mass culture and ensure the maintenance of a literary elite for the rest of the century and beyond. And this institutional site would...

.... 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...

... being championed 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...

... 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...

... editor, a much different leaning than Kenyon Review. It has been more interested in the politics of culture than the wonders of literature. Especially under my editorship, it has focused on the institutions that embed literature rather than the close reading of...