27 février 2016
A Haunting History of Incarceration
By Benjamin Reiss. The earliest known prison memoir by an African-American writer shouldn’t be overfreighted with historical implication. More...
27 février 2016
To Be a Black Professor at Yale
By . When Martin Luther King Day comes around, I think that people celebrate the holiday because everything is half-off. When [my teacher] told me about her student that got killed from gun violence, I told myself that I still don’t think that us. More...
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
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...
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