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Intellectualism and the Public & Remembering Lillian Robinson
ns 67 | Winter 2006
 In this number we examine the the notion of the intellectual within the public sphere. We revist the Academic Bill of Rights controversy, discuss the role and diminishing autonomy of the university within contemporary America, and examine the way academic presses have evolved over the past few decades. Featured are interviews with William V. Spanos, Toril Moi, Michael Bérubé, and Eric Zinner. We also remember our friend Lillian Robinson.
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Remembering Lillian Robinson
Poetry & Fiction
Interviews & Essays
Provocations
Surveying the Field
- Academic Memor (on Showalter's Faculty Towers) | Eric Leuschner
- Eyes on the University (on Bok's Universities in the Marketplace, Derrida's Eyes of the University, Sidhu's Universities and Globalization, Slaughter and Rhoade's Academic Capitalism and the New Economy, and Washburn's University, Inc.) | Jim Cocola
- The Cultural Work of Literature and Law (on Harris' E Pluribus Unum, Crane's Race, Citizenship, and Law in American Literature, and Best's Fugitive's Properties) | Todd J. Goddard
- Those Crazy Kids (on Medovoi's Rebels) | Victor Cohen
- The Biocultural Turn (on Smith and Morra's The Prosthetic Impulse, Lloyd's The Case of the Female Orgasm, and Castranova's Synthetic Worlds) | Alice Haisman
- Who Wears the Mask? (on Leach's Camouflage) | Hsuan L. Hsu
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News | 09.07.2006
Michael Bérubé's latest book, What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education, has been published by W. W. Norton & Company. In it, Bérubé "offers a definitive rebuttal to conservative activists' most incendiary claims about American universities."
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News | 07.23.2006
Student loans, for more than half those attending college, are the new paradigm of college funding. Consequently, student debt is, or will soon be, the new paradigm of early to middle adult life. Gone are the days when the state university was as cheap as a laptop and was considered a right, like secondary education. Now higher education is, like most social services, a largely privatized venture, and loans are the chief way that a majority of individuals pay for it.
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MR BOOKS
Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.
Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.
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