Profession. 2012 / editor, Rosemary G. Feal ; managing editor, Carol Zuses.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer.

Zuses, Carol.

Series:

Profession ; 2012.

Profession, 0740-6959 ; 2012

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and education.

Literature--Study and teaching.

Literature.

Physical Description:

iii, 297 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2012.

Contents:

Introduction / Russell A. Berman

Unlearning / Jack Halberstam

Of degraded talk, digital tongues, and a commitment to care / Imani Perry

Teaching literature and the bitter truth about Starbucks / Christopher Freeburg

Dreaming in foreign tongues / B. Venkat Mani

Reading (and writing) online, rather than on the decline / Kathleen Fitzpatrick

1977, An arrogant proposal : a new use for the dyshumanities / Wayne C. Booth

1978, The future of foreign language study in American colleges and universities / James A. Castañeda

1981, Women, men, theories, and literature / Carolyn G. Heilbrun

1983, Erosion in the humanities : blowing the dust from our eyes / Helene Moglen

1986, Taking cover in coverage / Gerald Graff

1987, The missing link in vision and governance : foreign language acquisition research / Claire J. Kramsch

1991, Skinside inside : the national literature major versus comparative literature / Judith Ryan

1992, Pluralism and its discontents / Henry Louis Gates Jr.

1993, The real trouble / George Levine

1994, No openings at this time : job market collapse and graduate education / Erik D. Curren

1995, Speculating about the labor market for academic humanists : "once more unto the breach" / Jack H. Schuster

1996, Preprofessionalism : what graduate students want / John Guillory

1997, Bypassing the traditional leadership : who's minding the store? / Dorothy James

1998, The way we work now / Mara Holt and Leon Anderson

1999, Knowledge in the age of knowledge work / Alan Liu

2002, The cultural turn in foreign language departments : challenge and opportunity / Heidi Byrnes

2003, Building a new public idea about language / Mary Louise Pratt

2004, The publishing crisis and tenure criteria : an issue for research universities? / Phillip Lewis

2005, On linguistic human rights and the United States "foreign" language crisis / Domna C. Stanton

2009, Ending the budget wars : funding the humanities during a crisis in higher education / Christopher Newfield

2011, Undergraduate education : cash cow or core competency / Reed Way Dasenbrock.

Notes:

Cover title.

Includes retrospective section of articles published in previous issues of Profession. The first six articles are from the MLA Presidential forum, Language, Literature, Learning.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781603291460

1603291466

OCLC:

823521627