Institution of Literature

Jeffrey J. Williams is Associate Professor of English at the University of Missouri. He is the author of Theory and the Novel: Narrative Reflexivity in the British Tradition and editor of PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy.

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Institutionally SpeakingJeffrey J. Williams I. The Institution of Theory Framing Theory: The Disorganization of HistoriographyVincent B. Leitch The Theory JunkyardJames J. Sosnoski Orbiting Planet FoucaultPaul Trembath This Feminism Which Is Not One: Women, Generations, InstitutionsDevoney Looser II. The Question of Cultural Studies Cultural Studies: Literary Criticism's Alter EgoGrant Farred Peer Pressure: Literary and Cultural Studies in the Bear MarketMichael Berube The Work of Cultural Studies in the Age of Transnational ProductionCrystal Bartolovich III. Professional Channels Dancing in the Dark: A Manifesto against Professional OrganizationsLennard J. David The Star System in Literary StudiesDavid R. Shumway The Life of the Mind and the Academic SituationJeffrey R. Williams IV. The Job of Literature Time Out of Mind: Graduate Students in the Institution of EnglishLouise Mowder Getting HiredTerry Caesar The Educational Politics of Human Resources: Humanities Teachers as Resource ManagersEvan Watkins Contributors Index

"A copy … should be on the shelf of every literary and cultural-studies practitioner concerned with the way our institutions and workplaces shape the possibilities of our scholarship and teaching." — College Literature"These essays are cutting-edge examples of work being done on 'the profession' and 'the institution,' issues that have been dominating advanced literary and theoretical thinking for the past decade. The timeliness of this collection is a strength." — Russell Reising, author of Loose Ends: Closure and Crisis in the American Social Text