Jeffrey J. Williams, a professor of literary and cultural studies at Carnegie Mellon University, is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative at the CUNY Graduate Center during fall 2019. He co-edits the Critical University Studies book series from Johns Hopkins University Press.
Stories by This Author
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The controversial literary theorist on aging, falling out of fashion, #MeToo, and why teaching is inevitably erotic.
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So you’re on Twitter. That doesn’t make you a public intellectual.
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Walter Benn Michaels’s grad students have infused literary analysis with enlightened skepticism.
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Tom Lutz’s Los Angeles Review of Books seeks to infuse literary judgment with a democratic spirit.
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“Surface,” “distance,” and related approaches to reading reflect more grounded, if less culturally and politically ambitious, goals.
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Modern is musty, postmodern is passé, and the current struggles to stay cutting edge. Time flies. Can culture keep up?
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This tale is told through a year’s worth of recommendation letters.
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Neither boomer nor Gen X, an age group’s identity has become sandwiched between stereotypes.
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The convention’s evolution has long been marked by struggles over cultural politics, redefining literature and how it should be studied.
