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...Jeffrey J. Williams © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Bérubé Interview 85 Jeffrey J. Williams Public Essayist: An Interview with Michael Bérubé Michael Bérubé is a leading critic among a new generation of intellectuals who...

... of Intellectual Publics,” Just Being Difficult? Academic Writing in the Public Arena, ed. Jonathan Culler and Kevin Lamb [Stanford: Stanford UP, 2003]) Recent news articles have portrayed my father, Leo Strauss, as the mastermind behind the neoconservative ideologues who...

...Cesare Casarino; Christian P. Haines; Peter Hitchcock This article argues for a university that would be neither private nor public but common. After providing a definition of the common, this article proposes to counter the current and ongoing processes of privatization and corporatization...

...Darko Suvin How do dominant epistemological frames create political understanding and violence in the public sphere and through cultural texts? This article explores a theoretical answer to this question by identifying narrative categories, or frames, that create shared realities and collective...

...Lynn Arner This study investigates whether the hiring of professors in Canada, a land of public universities and inexpensive tuition, is more equitable in terms of socioeconomic class than the hiring of their counterparts in the United States. Featuring original data on the degrees of all tenure...

.... O’Reilly’s attempt was far more public (and destructive), but Andrews’s political project has remained confined to a small contingent of scholars. This article reexamines Andrews’s claim that the only effective means of political resistance can come from an experimental poetic practice that challenges...

... to read literary works for their great moral wisdom, and they fault literary scholars for ignoring this appeal and for failing to understand basic economics. But as this survey of recent publications demonstrates, the conjunction of these critiques is odd: literary critics have been skeptical of claims...

... as the complex site for assessing the entanglements and inner workings of cultural memory. Following Rita Felski’s call to pursue attachment over critical detachment in scholarship, this article enacts creative-critical attention via a focus on mermaids in contemporary public discourse. [email protected]...

...Susan Hegeman Abstract This article compares episodes in two historical moments in the United States, the 1960s and the present, to interrogate how public universities have responded to culture war issues and pressure from powerful political actors. It recounts how in Florida the COVID-19 pandemic...

... recent responses to this question in an effort to begin to map the landscape of literature and criticism after secularism. J. M. Coetzee's Diary of a Bad Year provides an example of what such a criticism of presence would look like as well as the models of public life it entails. Coetzee's example...

... with nationalism. To travel smoothly among the flows of global culture and public reason, one need not abandon the nation, but one must, in the dominant account, be willing to shed the parochial trappings of religion—or at least relegate such attachments to one's private life. In a time of Twitter revolutions...

... of Sensible Life (2016), a book that decisively expands his notion of mediality of the sensible as to reimage the concept of life. The interview also deals with a wide range of topics, such as the arrangement of the modern university as well as Coccia's most recent work on modern publicity and advertisement...

... Apartment Stories and the homosocial relations among women in Victorian literature in her book Between Women . Last, it discusses coediting the new journal Public Books . © 2017 Virginia Tech 2017 surface reading politics of criticism critical method comparative literature feminist theory...

... and anti-Islamism in Europe, apartheid in South Africa (through J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer), and Israel-Palestine relations. The organization Rose cofounded, Independent Jewish Voices, organizes public events in Great Britain to discuss these issues. Rose also talks about her career, teaching...

... published monographs, which include Solidarity of Strangers: Feminism after Identity Politics ; Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace ; Publicity’s Secret: How Technoculture Capitalizes on Democracy ; Zizek’s Politics ; Democracy, and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative...

... that are always already ridden by strife; so never the consensual, but also never only conflictual. After discussing the place of political theory and feminism within the discipline of political science, Honig briefly discusses her new book project on public things. Her previous monographs include Political...

... 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...

...Tedra Osell © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 Tedra Osell What the Trolls Teach Us There are two kinds of public sphere: the literary/critical public sphere and the political public sphere. In London, in the early eighteenth century, new consumer goods like sugar, chocolate...

... : Vintage . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . 1998 . Tendencies . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Warner Michael . 2002 . Publics and Counterpublics . Cambridge, MA : Zone Books . Sean Grattan ACT-UP and the Queer Commons Protests do a lot of things, and it is precisely because...

... mathematical thinking, via metrics, to poetic and rhetorical expression, which we have largely forgotten about today. Michel Serres s oeuvre is quite singular in reminding us of this and in paving a way toward finding a scope, through whose optics a public nature can be addressed in its criticality, in science...