Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

Michael Rothberg is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Traumatic Realism: The Demands of Holocaust Representation. Peter K. Garrett is Professor of English and Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the author of Gothic Reflections: Narrative Force in Nineteenth-Century Fiction.