George Levine is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University. His work has focused on Victorian fiction, George Eliot, and Darwin and his relation to the novel and, more recently, on the relation of science to literature and aesthetics, and secularism.E. Ann Kaplan is an American professor, author, and director. She currently teaches English at the Stony Brook State University of New York, and is the founder and director of The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University.

• Part One. Politics of the institution and the public intellectual. Theory after theory: institutional questions / Bill Readings ; Research without a theory: working in academia / George Levine ; The scholar-teacher, the university, and society / Stanley N. Katz ; From what subject-position(s) should one address the politics of research? / Dominick Lacapra ; Cultural studies, globalization, and neo-liberalism / Román de la CampaPart 2. The politics of interdisciplinarity. Less disciplinary than thou: criticism and the conflict of the faculties / Bruce Robbins ; Shop window or laboratory: collection, collaboration, and the humanities / Jonathan Arac ; History beside the fact: what we learn from a true and exact history of Barbadoes / Myra JehlenPart 3. Politics and pedagogy. Feminism and the institutions of intimacy / Lauren Berlant ; How can we keep on doing this?: reflections on graduate education in the humanities / Peter Brooks ; Not to hear the Italian symphony / Richard KramerPart 4. Politics and research. Losing their edge: radical studies from the seventies to the nineties / Helene Moglen ; Dollars for scholars: the real politics of humanities scholarship and programs / Ellen Messer-Davidow

George Levine is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University. His work has focused on Victorian fiction, George Eliot, and Darwin and his relation to the novel and, more recently, on the relation of science to literature and aesthetics, and secularism.E. Ann Kaplan is an American professor, author, and director. She currently teaches English at the Stony Brook State University of New York, and is the founder and director of The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University.

• Part One. Politics of the institution and the public intellectual. Theory after theory: institutional questions / Bill Readings ; Research without a theory: working in academia / George Levine ; The scholar-teacher, the university, and society / Stanley N. Katz ; From what subject-position(s) should one address the politics of research? / Dominick Lacapra ; Cultural studies, globalization, and neo-liberalism / Román de la CampaPart 2. The politics of interdisciplinarity. Less disciplinary than thou: criticism and the conflict of the faculties / Bruce Robbins ; Shop window or laboratory: collection, collaboration, and the humanities / Jonathan Arac ; History beside the fact: what we learn from a true and exact history of Barbadoes / Myra JehlenPart 3. Politics and pedagogy. Feminism and the institutions of intimacy / Lauren Berlant ; How can we keep on doing this?: reflections on graduate education in the humanities / Peter Brooks ; Not to hear the Italian symphony / Richard KramerPart 4. Politics and research. Losing their edge: radical studies from the seventies to the nineties / Helene Moglen ; Dollars for scholars: the real politics of humanities scholarship and programs / Ellen Messer-Davidow

George Levine is Emeritus Professor at Rutgers University. His work has focused on Victorian fiction, George Eliot, and Darwin and his relation to the novel and, more recently, on the relation of science to literature and aesthetics, and secularism.E. Ann Kaplan is an American professor, author, and director. She currently teaches English at the Stony Brook State University of New York, and is the founder and director of The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook University.

• Part One. Politics of the institution and the public intellectual. Theory after theory: institutional questions / Bill Readings ; Research without a theory: working in academia / George Levine ; The scholar-teacher, the university, and society / Stanley N. Katz ; From what subject-position(s) should one address the politics of research? / Dominick Lacapra ; Cultural studies, globalization, and neo-liberalism / Román de la CampaPart 2. The politics of interdisciplinarity. Less disciplinary than thou: criticism and the conflict of the faculties / Bruce Robbins ; Shop window or laboratory: collection, collaboration, and the humanities / Jonathan Arac ; History beside the fact: what we learn from a true and exact history of Barbadoes / Myra JehlenPart 3. Politics and pedagogy. Feminism and the institutions of intimacy / Lauren Berlant ; How can we keep on doing this?: reflections on graduate education in the humanities / Peter Brooks ; Not to hear the Italian symphony / Richard KramerPart 4. Politics and research. Losing their edge: radical studies from the seventies to the nineties / Helene Moglen ; Dollars for scholars: the real politics of humanities scholarship and programs / Ellen Messer-Davidow