Acknowledgments
Introduction: Institutionally Speaking
Jeffrey J. Williams
I. The Institution of Theory
Framing Theory: The Disorganization of Historiography
Vincent B. Leitch
The Theory Junkyard
James J. Sosnoski
Orbiting Planet Foucault
Paul Trembath
This Feminism Which Is Not One: Women, Generations, Institutions
Devoney Looser
II. The Question of Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies: Literary Criticism's Alter Ego
Grant Farred
Peer Pressure: Literary and Cultural Studies in the Bear Market
Michael Berube
The Work of Cultural Studies in the Age of Transnational Production
Crystal Bartolovich
III. Professional Channels
Dancing in the Dark: A Manifesto against Professional Organizations
Lennard J. David
The Star System in Literary Studies
David R. Shumway
The Life of the Mind and the Academic Situation
Jeffrey R. Williams
IV. The Job of Literature
Time Out of Mind: Graduate Students in the Institution of English
Louise Mowder
Getting Hired
Terry Caesar
The Educational Politics of Human Resources: Humanities Teachers as Resource Managers
Evan Watkins
Contributors
Index