Books written by Michael Bérubé
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Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics
43 ) The passage is strange , since Genovese was hounded not by students but by ' politicians ' and ' tycoons , one of whom , as Hook notes , was New Jersey's Republican gubernatorial candidate , who ' focused his entire campaign on the ...
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The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
What's all the more remarkable about it, however, is that Hook used this rationale to defend a young, impolitic Marxist named Eugene Genovese, who had recently made public his support of the ...
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What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education
... Eugene Genovese, a professor of history at Rutgers University, who in 1965 had then made public his support of the Viet Cong—and, as Hook notes, had become immediately infamous for doing so, because New Jersey's Democratic governor, ...
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What's Liberal about the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and "bias" in Higher Education
And though Kirk and Uhura are tame by today's standards , the right - wing outrage over Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson at the 2004 Super Bowl or Terrell Owens and Nicollette Sheridan in a promotional spot for Monday Night Football ...
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Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics
Ageless modernist torchbearer Denis Donoghue complained that “ postmodernism is content to let a thousand discrepancies bloom , because in pomo , ' no artist's desire reaches out for spontaneity or an original relation to the world ' ...
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Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
Friedlander , Saul , ed . 1992. Probing the Limits of Representation : Nazism and the Final Solution . Cambridge , MA : Harvard University ... Ithaca : Cornell University Press . Luhmann , Niklas . 1982. The Differentiation of Society .
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Marginal Forces/cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon
The youngest artist in the poem , William Gropper , was born in 1897 ; Louis Armstrong , its youngest musician , in 1900. Thus , of all the figures in the Curator's anthology , only Satchmo is younger than Tolson himself .
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Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up
I focus on Glover—and I teach his book—not because he is the most emphatic of the pro-enhancement bioethicists but because he is one of the most moderate. It is not hard to find, in the “let a thousand enhancements bloom" camp, ...
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Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Immediately after the accident, in fact, Sharon and Karen's family is deemed invalid: I stuttered into the intercom [at St. Cloud Hospital], “I would like information concerning Sharon Kowalski. Is she here? . . . Can I see her?
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Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities
I do have two quibbles with Arnold's speech. One, he said, “You don't reason with terrorists, you defeat them.” Maybe this is one of those moments where he's respectfully disagreeing with the president, who recently told us (and I'm ...
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University Reform: The Founding of the American Association of University Professors
“Summary Report of the Committee on Academic Freedom and Academic Tenure on the Case of Professor Willard C. Fisher of Wesleyan University,” ... In it, he states that he was repeatedly informed that Mills did not approve of his views.
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Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities
On one level, Geyer recognizes that teachers must provide students with knowledge shaped by normative considerations and oriented towards forms of political engagement that insert them in the process of historical change.
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The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
A compelling account of how an understanding of intellectual disability can transform one's understanding of narrative.
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The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
4 In his initial essay, Kramnick complains that “the recent reception of long and ambitious works by Boyd and Dutton has in the main given literary Darwinism a free pass on the science” (323), and his footnoted example is my review of ...
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The Left at War
Amanda Anderson and Eric Zinner read the third draft and let me know how to tweak the fourth into its current form; Ben Carrington read the Stuart Hall chapter and festooned the margins with incisive and instructive notes; ...
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The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
(11) Levine occasionally gets quite dramatic on this score: the "anxieties” Levine faces seem to derive principally from the fear of losing face before one's valued colleagues, and one would think, from reading Levine, that one's valued ...
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The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments
Three Necessary Arguments Michael Bérubé, J. Ruth. level of selfawareness and selffabrication that no one would have thought possible for people with Down syndrome a generation ago.) I take issue with Singer's passage, then, ...
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Life as We Know it: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
position in John T. Noonan's classic The Morality of Abortion, published in 1970, three years before the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. Noonan's book is a painstaking explanation and defense of the history and philosophy of the ...
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The Left at War
Kazin, Michael. “A Patriotic Left.” Dissent (Fall 2002): 41–44. At http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=560 (accessed 11 Jan. 2008). Kelly, Michael. “Look Who's Playing Politics.” Washington Post, 25 Sept. 2002: A27.
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Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon
In this innovative and challenging book, Michael Bérubé shows how the reception of two postwar American writers illuminates—and calls into question—the functions of "marginality" and "centrality" and the role of literary critics in ...