The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments

ISBN-13: 9781137506108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 163 str.

Michael Berube; Jennifer Ruth

Opis

This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book's stark accounts of academic labour, and its proposals for reform of the tenure system, are novel, controversial, timely, and very necessary.

Recenzje

"Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth's The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments is a welcome addition to debates about how best to address the most significant threat to the profession: the casualization of the faculty." (Maria Maisto and Seth Kahn, Academe, aaup.org, Vol. 102 (3), May-June, 2016)

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: This is Not the Crisis You're Looking For 1. Value and Values 2. Slow Death and Painful Labors 3. From Professionalism to Patronage 4. On the Rails Appendix: Implementing a Teaching-Intensive Tenure Track at Portland State University Bibliography Index

O autorze

Michael Bérubé is the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University and the former president of the Modern Language Association.
 
Jennifer Ruth is Associate Professor of English and former chair of the Department of English at Portland State University.