Field Work

Marjorie Garber is Professor of English and Director for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard. She is the author of Vested Interests and with Rebecca L. Walkowitz co-editor of Media Spectacles and Secret Agents, published by Routledge; her latest book is Vice Versa. Rebecca L. Walkowitz is a doctoral candidate in English and American Literature at Harvard. Paul B. Franklin is a doctoral candidate in fine arts at Harvard.

• Introduction; Part 1 What Is Culture? What Are Cultures?; Chapter 1 The Intellectual Challenge of Multiculturalism and Teaching the Canon, Seyla Benhabib; Chapter 2 What Is Culture? Does It Matter?, Mary Margaret Steedly; Chapter 3 Custody Battles, Marjorie Garber; Chapter 4 Identity, Kwame Anthony Appiah; Chapter 5 Productive Discomfort, Michael Herzfeld; Part 2 National Identities, Global Identities; Chapter 6 Planet Rap, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Chapter 7 Violence and Interpretation, Beatrice Hanssen; Chapter 8 OUR AmeRíca, Doris Sommer; Chapter 9 Are We Post-American Studies?, Lawrence Buell; Part 3 National Literatures in a Global World?; Chapter 10 Don Quixoteand the National Citizenship of Masterpieces, Mary Malcolm Gaylord; Chapter 11 Russian Literature, William Mills Todd III; Chapter 12 Shrunk to an Interloper, Judith Ryan; Chapter 13 National Literatures in a Global World?— Sometimes—Maybe, Stephen Owen; Part 4 One Poem, Three Readers; Chapter 14 Reading a Poem, Helen Vendler; Chapter 15 Ode on a Public Thing, Barbara Johnson; Chapter 16 Enlistment and Refusal, Meredith L. McGill; Part 5 Textual Editing; Chapter 17 Textual Deviance, Jeffrey Masten; Chapter 18 Medieval Irish Manuscript Culture, Patrick K. Ford; Chapter 19 Editing Homer, Rethinking the Bard, Gregory Nagy; Part 6 Reading Visual Images; Chapter 20 Morimura’s Olympia[Norman Bryson; Chapter 21 Reading Invisibility, Jann Matlock; Chapter 22 “Agency”, Irene J. Winter; Part 7 Law and Literature; Chapter 23 Law’s Literature, David Kennedy; Chapter 24 The Made-Up and the Made-Real, Elaine Scarry; Chapter 25 Narrative Battles in the Courtroom, Laura Hanft Korobkin; Chapter 26 Telling Stories, Telling Law, Martha Minow; Part 8 The Literary and the Autobiographical; Chapter 27 A Literary Approach to Cultural Studies, Sacvan Bercovitch; Chapter 28 Criticism and the Autobiographical Voice, Susan Rubin Suleiman; Chapter 29 Unsettling Homecoming, Svetlana Boym;