Crystal Bartolovich teaches at Syracuse University. She has published widely on cultural studies and early modern British culture Michael Berube recently moved to Penn State University to take the Paterno Family Chair Terry Caesar currently teaches at Mukogawa Women's University in Japan Lennard J. Davis is currently head of the English department at the University of Illinois-Chicago Grant Farred teaches at Duke University Vincent B. Leitch holds the Sutton Chair in English at the University of Oklahoma Devoney Looser currently teaches English and Women's Studies at Louisiana State University Louise Mowder did her doctoral work in English at Rutgers University David R. Shumway teaches at Carnegie Mellon University James J. Sosnoski teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago Paul Tremblath teaches at Colorado State University Evan Watkins teaches at Penn State University Jeffrey J. Williams teaches at the University of Missouri-Columbia
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: Institutionally Speaking
1
(18)
Jeffrey J. Williams
I. The Institution of Theory
Framing Theory: The Disorganization of Historiography
19
(6)
Vincent B. Leitch
The Theory Junkyard
25
(18)
James J. Sosnoski
Orbiting Planet Foucault
43
(18)
Paul Trembath
This Feminism Which Is Not One: Women, Generations, Institutions
61
(16)
Devoney Looser
II. The Question of Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies: Literary Criticism's Alter Ego
77
(18)
Grant Farred
Peer Pressure: Literary and Cultural Studies in the Bear Market
95
(16)
Michael Berube
The Work of Cultural Studies in the Age of Transnational Production
111
(42)
Crystal Bartolovich
III. Professional Channels
Dancing in the Dark: A Manifesto against Professional Organizations
153
(20)
Lennard J. Davis
The Star System in Literary Studies
173
(30)
David R. Shumway
The Life of the Mind and the Academic Situation
203
(26)
Jeffrey J. Williams
IV. The Job of Literature
Time Out of Mind: Graduate Students in the Institution of English
229
(12)
Louise Mowder
Getting Hired
241
(24)
Terry Caesar
The Educational Politics of Human Resources: Humanities Teacers as Resource Managers
265
(24)
Evan Watkins
Contributors
289
(2)
Index
291
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