Michael Bérubé
Michael Bérubé is a professor of literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is on Twitter @MichaelBerube1.
Stories by this Author
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The Review | Opinion
Saving Academic Freedom From Free Speech
The difference between the two is critical — and widely ignored. -
The Review | Essay
Cut Students Some Slack Already
I used to think I was doing students a favor by enforcing strict rules and deadlines. I wasn’t. -
Advice
How to Deal With the Dark Side of Social Media
Advice on helping faculty and staff members who have become the targets of internet trolls. -
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The Review
What Makes a Story
An understanding of intellectual disability can transform how we read. -
Commentary
Time for a Teaching-Intensive Tenure Track
The crisis in graduate education is a result of colleges’ hiring instructors without Ph.D.s, not an overproduction of doctorates, argue the authors of a new book. -
The Conversation
The New ‘Austerity Imperative’ for Universities
Rising health-care costs are a problem, writes Michael Bérubé, but does the response have to hit hardest those least able to pay? -
The Chronicle Review
The Humanities, Declining? Not According to the Numbers.
Enrollments aren’t down at all, despite what the naysayers want us to believe. -
The Chronicle Review
Humanities Unraveled
Shore up the financial logic of doctoral programs, and their content will sort itself out. -
2012 Roundup
Why I Resigned the Paterno Chair
It was the Paterno Family Professorship in Literature. That’s all you need to know, right? No. In fact, much of what you think you know is wrong.