Table of Contents:
  • Against English as it was : theory and the politics of the discipline
  • Multiculturalism without guarantees : from anthologies to the social text
  • Relativism, politics, and ethics : writing literary history in the shadow of Poststructuralism
  • Always already cultural studies : academic conferences and a manifesto
  • Progressive pedagogy without apologies : the cultural work of teaching noncanonical poetry
  • Canon fodder : an evening with William Bennett, Lynne Cheney, and Dinesh D'Souza
  • Hate speech and political correctness
  • What happens when we put the left at the center?
  • Dichotomy is where the money is : anti-intellectualism within and outside the university
  • Late capitalism arrives on campus : the corporate university's expendable employees
  • What is to be done? : a twelve-step program for academia
  • Reaction and resistance at Yale and the MLA : union organizing and the job market.