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.
