Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Security Campus - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047205063X ISBN 13: 9780472050635

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 2009

Synopsis

"Dangerous Professors is pertinent, well-executed, and apt to introduce new and helpful perspectives regarding the present meaning and value of academic freedom in the U.S. university system and, by extension, U.S. public and civil society generally."
---Adam Green, University of Chicago

Through various examinations of past and current threats to academic freedom, Dangerous Professors investigates the status of such freedom in the aftermath of 9/11. Bringing together scholars in literature, law, and American Studies, the collection of essays seeks to understand academic freedom in historical perspective by focusing on the key documents that have defined its current meaning, and then to analyze the ways in which this concept protects but also limits critical voices on campus. Including essays from academics (Ward Churchill and Robert Jensen) who have been directly involved in recent controversies about academic freedom, Dangerous Professors provides a timely and critical look at the battle over educational curricula and institutions today.

Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida and author of several books and publications, including U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (1998) and the forthcoming Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship (2009).

Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and at the College of Staten Island, where he specializes in postcolonial studies.  He is the author of Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Britain (2007) and coeditor of Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (2007). Professor Dawson is also a member of the Social Text editorial collective.

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About this title

About the Author:

Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University of Florida, and author of several books and publications, including U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 (Michigan, 1998) and the upcoming Locating Race: Global Sites of Post-Colonial Citizenship (2009). Ashley Dawson is Assistant Professor of English at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York.

Review:

"Dangerous Professors is pertinent, well-executed, and introduces urgently needed perspectives regarding the present meaning and value of academic freedom on campus and, more broadly, in U.S. public and civil society." - Adam Green, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago"

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 047205063X
• ISBN 13: 9780472050635
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Schueller Malini Johar, Dawson Ashley