Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University:
Poetry, Politics, and the Profession


Edited by Michael Rothberg and Peter K. Garrett

State University of New York Press, January 2009
Published simultaneously in paper and hardbound editions

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Michael Rothberg and Peter K. Garrett, “An Exemplary Career: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University”

Part I: The Canon and the Politics of Poetry

2. Edward Brunner, “Preserving Thresholds: The Scholar in the Museum, Junk-Shop and Library”
3. Walter Kalaidjian, “Cary Nelson: Expanding the Canon of American Poetry”
4. Grant Farred, “’We Should Always Read What Other People Assure Us Is No Good’: The Good of the No Good”
5. Karen Ford, “The Lives of Haiku Poetry: Self, Selflessness, and Solidarity in Concentration Camp Haiku”
6. Michael Thurston, “Contexts, Choruses, and Katabases (Canonical and Non-): Some Methodological Implications of Cary Nelson’s Recovery Work”

Part II: Corporatization and the Politics of the Academy

7. Marc Bousquet, “Worlds to Win: Toward a Cultural Studies of the University Itself”
8. Michael Bérubé, “The Organization Man”
9. Stephen Watt, “The Humanities, the University, and the Enemy Within”
10. Jane Juffer, “Everyday Life at the Corporate University”
11. Lisa Duggan, “Who’s Afraid of Cultural Studies?”
12. Andrew Ross, “The Rise of the Global University”

Part III: Pedagogy and the Politics of Mentoring

13. Marsha Bryant, “Graduate Mentoring: A Poetics”
14. Brady Harrison, “Empire and the Anxiety of Influence”
15. James D. Sullivan, “Learning My Professional Responsibilities”
16. Jim Finnegan, “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”
17. Jeff Sychterz, “Cary Nelson at the Naval Academy”
18. John Marsh, “Without Shame: On Cary Nelson’s Legacy”

Afterword

19. Cary Nelson, “Activism and Community in the Academy”