Manifesto of a tenured radical / Cary Nelson.

• Author: Nelson, Cary.
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : New York University Press,, 1997.; Baltimore, Md. : : Project MUSE,, 2021; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Language: English
• Series: Cultural front (Series)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vi, 243 p. )
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia.

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.