Michael Bérubé is the Paterno Family Professor in Literature at Pennsylvania State University. He is the author of Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon (1992); Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994); Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996); and The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1998).
17 Ebooks by Michael Berube
Michael Berube: The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
The subject of the aesthetic has returned to cultural and literary
debates with a vengeance. The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies
is a timely and authoritative collection of essays that analyze the …
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Michael Bérubé: Rhetorical Occasions
A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political …
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Robert McRuer: Crip Theory
A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over …
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Michael Bérubé: Employment of English
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be ’employed’ in the culture at large? In recent years, debates about the role and direction of Engli …
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Michael Bérubé: The Left at War
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and Bush’s belligerent response fractured the American left—partly by putting pressure on little-noticed fissures that had appeared a decade earlier. In a masterful surv …
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Michael Bérubé & J. Ruth: The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom
This book is a lively, passionate defence of contemporary work in the humanities, and, beyond that, of the university system that makes such work possible. The book’s stark accounts of academic …
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Michael Bérubé: The Secret Life of Stories
How an understanding of intellectual disability transforms the pleasures of reading Narrative informs everything we think, do, plan, remember, and imagine. We tell stories and we listen to stories, g …
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Richard Rorty: Philosophy as Poetry
Undeniably iconoclastic, and doggedly practical where others were abstract, the late Richard Rorty was described by some as a philosopher with no philosophy. Rorty was skeptical of systems claimi …
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€23.99
Michael Bérubé: Employment of English
What sorts of cultural criticism are teachers and scholars to produce, and how can that criticism be ’employed’ in the culture at large? In recent years, debates about the role and direction of Engli …
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Michael Bérubé: What’s Liberal About the Liberal Arts?: Classroom Politics and ‘Bias’ in Higher Education
‘A sensitive, sensible, and compelling account of American education at its best.’—Philadelphia Inquirer Described as one of the ‘101 Most Dangerous Academics in America’ by right-wing critic David H …
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Michael Berube & Cary Nelson: Higher Education Under Fire
The contributors to this collection explore why–and how–higher education in America under …
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Michael Berube & Cary Nelson: Higher Education Under Fire
The contributors to this collection explore why–and how–higher education in America under …
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€66.37
Michael Berube & Jennifer Ruth: It’s Not Free Speech
How far does the idea of academic freedom extend to professors in an era of racial reckoning?The protests of summer 2020, which were ignited by the murder of George Floyd, led to long-overdue …
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Lennard J. Davis: Bending Over Backwards
With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the bod …
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Gabriel Noah Brahm & Cary Nelson: Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel
How should we understand the international debate about the future of Israel and the Palestinians? Can justice be achieved in the Middle East? Until now, there was no single place for people to go to …
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€43.74
Michael Bérubé: The Ex-Human
Facing threats like climate change and nuclear warfare, science fiction authors have conjured apocalyptic scenarios of human extinction. Can such gloomy fates help us make sense of our contemporary c …
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