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27 février 2016

A Norse God Among the Lit-Critters

By . Hemingway got one. So did Faulkner, his stylistic rival. Nabokov, naturally. Austen, of course. Conrad made the list; Twain, too. Wilde. Both Woolf and Melville merited a pair. Beckett, three. Six for Shakespeare. The writers with entire sessions devoted to their oeuvres at the Modern Language Association’s annual meeting last month require no first names: They are the thoroughly anthologized, the universally acclaimed. More...

27 février 2016

How Right-Wing Billionaires Infiltrated Higher Education

By . If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been the uprising at Cornell University on April 20, 1969. More...

27 février 2016

The Free-Speech Fallacy

By . On February 3, Jasbir Puar presented a paper at Vassar College critiquing Israeli policy toward Palestinians. Puar, an associate professor of women and gender studies at Rutgers University, is an influential intellectual. Her 2007 book, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, has been cited over 1,700 times, a level of impact few academics achieve in a lifetime. More...

27 février 2016

Shakespeare’s Badass Quarto

By . Have you noticed that every few years a controversy arises over a claim that an old portrait found in someone’s attic is the true face of William Shakespeare? Most recently the British publication Country Life gave front-cover, stop-the-presses treatment ("The Greatest Discovery in 400 Years") to a pathetically generic engraving that "secret cyphers" supposedly proved was Shakespeare’s face. More...

27 février 2016

Fulbright Seeks More Diverse Pool of Scholars and Students

By . Kimberly Jackson, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Spelman College, had long hoped to join the ranks of scholars who had earned one of the U.S. government’s prestigious Fulbright research awards. She succeeded last spring, and began preparing to spend six months in the Caribbean country of Antigua and Barbuda studying food science. More...

27 février 2016

Middle-East Governments Are Shutting the Door on Scholars

By . Many academics who study the Middle East say they are working in a climate of increased repression and paranoia. More...

27 février 2016

Congress Again Scrutinizes Colleges With Big Endowments

By Goldie Blumenstyk. Universities with large endowments are once again coming under the congressional microscope. Unlike in 2007 and 2008, however, this time it’s just the private. More...

27 février 2016

Behind One Research University's Rise: Opportunism, Geography, and Good Fortune

By Paul Basken. For research institutions seeking assurances that they too can grow fast, Northeastern University may be a case of cold comfort. More...

27 février 2016

Flagging Disciplines Reclaim Their Relevance

By . The planet has never been more connected, but students are hardly flocking to study foreign languages. Over all, enrollments in the courses have stagnated. Colleges are increasingly dropping foreign language as a requirement for graduation. More...

27 février 2016

The Uncertain Path to Full Professor

By . Vague criteria may signal to some faculty members, especially women and minorities, that a promotion to the top is out of their reach. More...

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