Professions : conversations on the future of literary and cultural studies /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Hall, Donald E. (Donald Eugene), 1960-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2001]
Subjects:	English literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Literature > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Culture > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States. Education, Humanistic > United States. Education, Higher > United States.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the functions and dysfunctions of criticism at the present time / Donald E. Hall
Can we talk? / Jane Tompkins and Gerald Graff
Intellectual work today: some trans-Atlantic musings / John McGowan and Regenia Garnier
What do we owe texts? respect, irreverence, or nothing at all? / James Phelan and James R. Kincaid
A dialogue on evaluation in poetry / Marjorie Perloff and Robert von Hallberg
Negotiating constituencies: some thoughts on diaspora and the past, present, and future of African American studies / Judith Jackson Fossett and Kevin Gaines
Star search: psychoanalysis and Marxism in lesbian and gay studies / Dennis W. Allen and Judith Roof
The new challenges of academic publishing / Niko Pfund, Gordon Hutner, and Martha Banta
The end of theory, the rise of the profession: a rant in search of responses / Geoffrey Galt Harpham
That was then, this is now, but what will be?: a dialogue between two generations of professors / Donald E. Hall and Susan S. Lanser
A changing profession: interviews with J. Hillis Miller, Herbert Lindenberger, Sandra Gilbert, Bonnie Zimmerman, Nellie McKay, and Elaine Marks / Donald E. Hall.