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Manifesto of a Tenured Radical
Cary Nelson
In an age when innovative scholarly work is at an all-time high, the academy itself is being rocked by structural change. Funding is plummeting. Tenure increasingly seems a prospect for only the elite few. Ph.D.'s are going begging for even adjunct work. Into this tumult steps Cary Nelson, with a no- holds-barred account of recent developments in higher education. Eloquent and witty, Manifesto of a Tenured Radical urges academics to apply the theoretical advances of the last twenty years to an analysis of their own practices and standards of behavior. In the process, Nelson offers a devastating critique of current inequities and a detailed proposal for change in the form of A Twelve-Step Program for Academia.
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Cary Nelson teaches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he is Jublilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is also the national president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Among his twenty-five books are MANIFSTO OF A TENURED RADICAL (also published by NYU) and the landmark coedited collection CULTURAL STUDIES. A collection about his work and its impact, CARY NELSON AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE UNIVERSITY: POETRY, POLITICS, AND THE PROFESSION was published in 2009. |
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