Preface, Introduction Between Meltdown and Community: Crisis and Opportunity in Higher Education, Academic Keywords: The Dictionary, Notes, Bibliogrpahy, Index
of the landmark reader, Cultural Studies, (1992) as well as Higher Education Under Fire (1994) and Disciplinarityand Dissent in Cultural Studies (1996), all published by Routledge. Stephen Watt is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Indiana University.
"Academic Keywords demands and deserves serious attention. Nelson
and Watt diagnose with keen analyses and illustrative anecdotes a
set of ills that threaten the health, if not the life, of the
American university. [P]erhaps what is most impressive about this
justifiably angry book is the idealism that accompanies its
outrage. In their entries on "Doctoral Dissertations" and
"Mentoring," Nelson and Watt show that their critique is rooted in
a deep commitment to higher education, and specifically to graduate
education. The changes they advocate and urge are aimed at
improving, perhaps even rescuing, an institution they seem
profoundly to care about." -- College Literature
"Smart, incisive and brave, ACADEMIC KEYWORDS probes 47 aspects of
academe in droll entries that range from half a page to more than
20. Nelson, a sly University of Illinois liberal arts professor
best known for MANIFESTOof A TENURED RADICAL (1997), and Watt, an
Indiana University English professor expert in postmodernism and
drama, write like whistleblowers with diplomas from a semi-Marxist
cell that alternates Groucho with Karl." -- Carlin Romano, The
Philadelphia Inquirer
"...sure to make even the tweediest spit their twice-boiled
departmental coffee across the office." -- Toronto Globe and
Mail
"Academic Keywords won't be a favorite of the corporate university
and its proponents, but it is indispensable to those who wish to
salvage higher education for open intellectual exchange and real
learning." -- Judith Roof, author of Reproductions of
Reproduction
"A dictionary that redefines the basic vocabulary of academic life,
Academic Keywords is also an action handbook for faculty reformers,
student activists, adjunct organizers, and even thoughtful
administrators." -- Karen Thompson, President, Part-time Faculty
Union, Rutgers University
"A terrific book--funny, sad, useful, outrageous--one of the best
reflections on America's contradictory university system. Read it
and weep--or laugh--or, best of all, act." -- Paul Lauter, editor
of the The HeathAnthology of American Literature
"Required reading for parents, teachers, lawmakers--true to the
bone--an utterly frank, witty, and thoroughly engrossing portrait
of the appalling experiences of today's students and educators." --
Mark Bousquet, founding editor, Workplace: The Journal of Academic
Labor
"Thorough analysis." -- Bimonthly Review of Law Books
"More of an encyclopedia, with the alphabetical articles weighing
in at several pages each. They combine scathing humor with serious
criticism of the academic system, respect and praise for some
elements of it, to begin thinking differently about the process,
hope for reform, and practical measures to take." -- Reference &
ResearchBook News
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