...Charlotte A. Kunkel; Sheila Radford-Hill Scholars often debate the history of academic freedom, including efforts across the political spectrum to redefine its policies and practices. One fact that is sometimes overlooked in these debates is that students' educational experiences a re regularly...

...Morgan Adamson This essay analyzes the aesthetics and politics of resistance in the work of Chilean artist Francisco Tapia (aka Papas Fritas) who burned $500 million worth of student debt promissory notes and presented them to the student movement as a work of art in May 2014. Analyzing the art...

... holders’ socioeconomic backgrounds. This study discusses the implications of such tracking patterns for first-generation university students—who comprise 38.8 percent of English doctoral recipients in Canada—when they seek positions in the professoriat. © 2021 Virginia Tech 2021 professors...

... Christi (1246), and to the midrash of a young Torah student who combusted as he read the book of Ezekiel, she traces how these corpora collided and burst into flames in the mid-thirteenth century. These historical ashes question Agamben’s archaeology of glory and his vision of the Empty Throne. She...

... immigrant students, and her recent book on Proust. She reads Proust politically, situating him historically in relation to Freud and Dreyfus, and then takes him on a journey through Palestine by way of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett as well as Middle Eastern writers like Elias Khoury or filmmakers like...

...Emily Brown Coolidge Toker There are at least two visions of the global use of English. Globalized English refers to a homogeneous, homogenizing, and standardized linguistic model derived from one or more of the historically anglophone countries and imposed on students and professionals learning...

... history confronts it. —Georg Lukács, History and Class Consciousness The history of the graduate student in America is a short one. We’ve only been around since the turn of the twentieth century, and we’ve only been used as TAs in large numbers since the 1970s. But our story (like...

... to corporate needs and demographic shifts has often been conflated with the needs of greater numbers of students for access. Bridge programs, therefore, can legitimately be viewed as a response to the need of New York City's working-class students for greater access to higher education. However...

..., 2006]) In one of his fascinating clinical tales, Oliver Sacks tells us of the strange case of Dr. P., a music professor referred to Sacks because Dr. P. had presented an array of odd visual symptoms. It seems that Dr. P. had difficulty recognizing his own students and friends...

... as a graduate student (PhD, 1975). Offered jobs in Victorian literature at BU and in composition at Pitt, he chose composition and has been at Pitt since 1975. He directed the composition program from 1980- 89 and has been chair of the department since 1995. Periodically he has also been a visiting...

...Sandra Baringer Sandra Baringer Repositioning the Ladder: A Cautionary Tale about Outsourcing Periodically, politicians and pundits bemoan the lack of preparation of high school graduates for college level work and the floodingo f college campuses with students needing "remedial...

... of society and hope to move masses of the urban poor into the middle classes if they aren't bright enough to get there by themselves in the first place. Giving them a helping hand by creating remedial courses or generous admission policies will not help these students, but, like affirmative action...

....” —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...

... ( Spring 1951 ): 225 - 30 . Diana Fuss Teaching Theory When I was a graduate student in the humanities at Brown in the heady theory decade of the 1980s, it seemed as if all the men were studying Marxism and all the women were studying Psychoanalysis. There were a few border-crossers...

... of Academic Work and Careers [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2006]) “The thing being made in a university is humanity.” —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...

...Gerald Graff © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Gerald Graff Credo of a Teacher My credo as a teacher: do whatever it takes to turn students into compulsively analytic intellectuals like yourself. It’s never mattered to me what kind of intellectuals my students become—Left...

..., pay for teaching four classes went from $12,000 in 2000 to $19,000 in 2004.) The agreement provided for full health insurance, which was previously paid for by students themselves. The union contract secured compensation for required training, and outside arbitration of grievances. To my...

... the more “heart and soul” into our teaching, to squarely recommit ourselves to researching and practicing forms of radical pedagogy, to invest ourselves in the project of teaching our students to “think outside the box” and to “read against the grain.” In other words...

...—if indeed it is day in Bangalore.” 130 the minnesota review I’d begun my day in gladness. Despondency and madness were right around the corner. My book. My promotion. These damn students. Then it hit me. Why not ship...

...-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...