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Michael Bérubé

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Bérubé is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at Pennsylvania State University, where he teaches American literature, disability studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of several books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal and conservative politics, and debates in higher education. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State; from 1997 to 2001 he was the founding director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. He was the 2012 president of the Modern Language Association, and served as vice president from 2010–2011. He served two terms on the National Council of the American Association of University Professors from 2005 to 2011, and three terms on the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure from 2009 to 2018. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes for two terms, 2011-2017. Bérubé was named a University Scholar for research at the University of Illinois in 1995 and was awarded the Faculty Scholar medal for research from Penn State in 2012.

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Michael Bérubé's Published Works

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Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism and Other Difficult Positions (2002) (470)
Disability studies : enabling the humanities (2002) (213)
Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities (1994) (115)
Life As We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996) (73)
Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1997) (59)
Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994) (51)
What's liberal about the liberal arts: Classroom polities and “Bias” in Higher Education (2006) (47)
Disability and Narrative (2005) (47)
Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (1992) (47)
EQUALITY, FREEDOM, AND/OR JUSTICE FOR ALL: A RESPONSE TO MARTHA NUSSBAUM (2009) (41)
The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments (2015) (40)
American Studies without Exceptions (2003) (37)
The Utility of the Arts and Humanities (2003) (34)
The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom (2015) (28)
Disability, Democracy, and the New Genetics (2021) (19)
Teaching to the Six (2002) (17)
Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life (1997) (14)
The Left at War (2009) (14)
Public Perceptions of Universities and Faculty. (1996) (13)
The Loyalties of American Studies (2004) (13)
The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies (2005) (12)
Autobiography as Performative Utterance (2000) (11)
How We Got Here (2013) (11)
Days of Future Past. (2002) (10)
Masks, Margins, and African American Modernism: Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery (1990) (10)
Introduction: Engaging the Aesthetic (2008) (8)
Employment of English (2020) (8)
Community Reading and Social Imagination (2010) (7)
A Tale of Tales (2012) (7)
The Blessed of the Earth (1996) (6)
Bite Size Theory: Popularizing Academic Criticism (1993) (6)
This I Believed (2009) (5)
The Secret Life of Stories (2016) (5)
The Way We Review Now (2018) (5)
The Humanities, Unraveled. (2013) (5)
Standard Deviation: Skyrocketing Job Requirements Inflame Political Tensions. (1995) (4)
At Penn State, a Bitter Reckoning (2012) (4)
EXTRAORDINARY CLAIMS (2009) (4)
Higher Education Under Fire (2020) (4)
Literary Culture in a World Transformed: A Future for the Humanities (review) (2006) (4)
Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (2015) (3)
Writing Teachers for Twenty-First-Century Writers: A Gap in Graduate Education (2014) (3)
Introduction: Worldly English (2002) (3)
Intellectual inquiry and academic activism (1997) (3)
Public Axes: A Reply to Jim Neilson and Gregory Meyerson (2011) (3)
Abandon All Hope (2014) (3)
The role of the faculty in conditions of financial exigency (2013) (2)
Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Southern Maine (2015) (2)
Bodyminds Reimagined: (Dis)ability, Race, and Gender in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2019) (2)
Academic freedom and tenure: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge: A supplementary report on a censured administration (2016) (2)
Bum Rap@@@Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy. (1994) (2)
Case Study: Deciding for the Patient (2004) (2)
Against Subjectivity (1996) (2)
Academic Freedom and Tenure: The College of Saint Rose (New York) (2016) (2)
The Abuses of the University (1998) (2)
Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature? (2005) (2)
Pillow Talk and the Politics of Representation (2000) (2)
Mentoring and Making it in Academe: A Guide for Newcomers to the Ivory Tower (2008) (1)
Value and values. (2022) (1)
Academic freedom and tenure: Felician College (New Jersey) (2015) (1)
What Does "Academic Freedom" Mean?. (2006) (1)
The Futility of the Humanities (2011) (1)
Academic Freedom and Tenure: University of Northern Iowa (2013) (1)
Hybridity in the Center: An Interview with Houston A. Baker, Jr (1992) (1)
Introduction: This is Not the Crisis You’re Looking For (2015) (1)
Introduction: Through the Ethnographic Looking Glass (2011) (1)
Beneath the return to the valley of the culture wars (1994) (1)
Deciding for the patient. (2004) (1)
Disuniting America Again (1993) (1)
Pistols for Two (1998) (1)
Academic freedom and tenure: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (April 2015) (2015) (1)
Cathy N. Davidson. The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World in Flux. New York: Basic Books, 2017. 336 pp. (2018) (0)
Reply to Mark Bauerlein (2000) (0)
Paulson, William. Literary Culture in a World Transformed: A Future for the Humanities. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001 (2006) (0)
From Professionalism to Patronage (2015) (0)
Twayne in Vain (1992) (0)
The Culture Wars for Grown-UPS@@@The Dictatorship of Virtue.@@@Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics. (1995) (0)
What Is This “Cultural” in Cultural Studies? (2009) (0)
Contributors (2006) (0)
Introduction: A Report From the Front (2020) (0)
Academic Freedom and the “Whitelash” of the 2020s (2023) (0)
“The University Is Not a Public Square”: An Interview with Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth About It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022) (0)
Cultural Studies or Comparative Literature? (2005) (0)
Canons and Contexts in Context (2008) (0)
Cultural Studies and Political Crisis (2009) (0)
Aesthetics And Cultural Studies (2005) (0)
Threat Level (2009) (0)
Blogging Back at the Right (2005) (0)
The Fine Art of Talking about Science (2019) (0)
Declarations of Independence (2009) (0)
Disability Studies Today: A Conversation with Michael Bérubé (2019) (0)
Somebody Killed Something, That's Clear at any Rate: Jabberwocky and the Western Canon (2007) (0)
Academic freedom and tenure: University of Missouri (Columbia) (2016) (0)
Books for review (2004) (0)
Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right (review) (2011) (0)
Being Material Enough: New Directions for Reforming English (2001) (0)
Extreme Prejudice@@@The End of Racism. (1996) (0)
Academic Labor, Shared Governance, and the Future That Awaits Us (2023) (0)
Publisher Correction to: “The University Is Not a Public Square”: An Interview with Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth About It’s Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and the Future of Academic Freedom (2022) (0)
Response (2005) (0)
On the Rails (2015) (0)
Narrative and Intellectual Disability (2011) (0)
An Audacious Argument for Modesty (2020) (0)
The Best Defense? Academic Progressives Respond to Critics (1998) (0)
Money, Merit, and Democracy at the University: (2020) (0)
Identity Politics and Campus Communities: (2020) (0)
Technoculture.@@@Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science. (1993) (0)
Straight Outta Normal (1996) (0)
Life as we Know it (1998) (0)
Life Stories: In Response to Deborah Minter (2002) (0)
The Play's the Thing (2010) (0)
Come Back to the Text Ag'in, Huck Honey (1999) (0)
Post Hoax, Ergo Propter Hoax (2009) (0)
Testing the Test. (2009) (0)
You're an Egg (2016) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2011) (0)
Extreme Prejudice. Dinesh D'Souza and the Coarsening of American Conservatism. Book Review. (1996) (0)
Avant-Gardes and De-Author-Izations: Harlem Gallery and the Cultural Contradictions of Modernism (1989) (0)
Life with Children: Children on Campus (2015) (0)
Vital Signs (2022) (0)
The Realities of Fantasy (2013) (0)
Afterword. A Change Is Gonna Come, Same as It Ever Was (2020) (0)
Profession, Revise Thyself—Again (2015) (0)
Dreaming of a New Semester (2007) (0)
Nowhere Left to Go (2009) (0)
16. This I Believed (2012) (0)
Minutes of the MLA Executive Council (2012) (0)
DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT A SCIENCE BOOK, DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE FRENCH I TOOK… (2012) (0)
Why Teach Literature? (2017) (0)
Anxious Academics (2003) (0)
Giving Up (2020) (0)
The Effort of Bad Writing (2010) (0)
Contributors (1962) (0)
Response: Making yourself useful (2005) (0)
Was I Ever Wrong (2017) (0)
A Theory of Theory of Mind (2013) (0)
The Eighteenth Brumaire of George W. Bush: Campaign 2004 as Tragedy and Farce (2006) (0)
Opening Lines: A Congeries of Reflections (2006) (0)
Aesthetics and Ideology Revisited@@@The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies@@@Does Literary Studies Have a Future?@@@Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education@@@Literature: An Embattled Profession (2000) (0)

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