Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University: Poetry, Politics, and the Profession Book

Acknowledgments vii

1 An Exemplary Career: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University Michael Rothberg Peter K. Garrett 1

Part 1 The Canon and the Politics of Poetry 11

2 Preserving Thresholds: The Scholar in the Museum, Junk Shop, and Library Edward Brunner 13

3 Cary Nelson: Expanding the Canon of American Poetry Walter Kalaidjian 31

4 "We Should Always Read What Other People Assure Us Is No Good": The Good of the No Good Grant Farred 45

5 The Lives of Haiku Poetry: Self, Selflessness, and Solidarity in Concentration Camp Haiku Karen Jackson Ford 59

6 Contexts, Choruses, and Katabases (Canonical and Non-): Some Methodological Implications of Cary Nelson's Recovery Work Michael Thurston 75

Part 2 Corporatization and the Politics of the Academy 93

7 Worlds to Win: Toward a Cultural Studies of the University Itself Marc Bousquet 95

8 The Organization Man Michael Berube 113

9 The Humanities, the University, and the Enemy Within Stephen Watt 123

10 Everyday Life at the Corporate University Jane Juffer 141

11 Who's Afraid of Cultural Studies? Lisa Duggan 159

12 The Rise of the Global University Andrew Ross 167

Part 3 Pedagogy and the Politics of Mentoring 185

13 Graduate Mentoring: A Poetics Marsha Bryant 187

14 Empire and the Anxiety of Influence Brady Harrison 193

15 Learning My Professional Responsibilities James D. Sullivan 201

16 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Jim Finnegan 205

17 Cary Nelson at the Naval Academy Jeff Sychterz 209

18 Without Shame: On Cary Nelson's Legacy John Marsh 217

Afterword

19 Activism and Community in the Academy Cary Nelson 221

List of Contributors 231

Index 235