Profession 2009

Introduction / Gerald Graff

Conventional wisdom / Michael Bérubé

The way we talk about the way we teach now / Amanda Anderson

After suspicion / Rita Felski

Biocultures and education / Lennard Davis

Animation / Judith Halberstam

Reading / David Steiner

Against readings / Mark Edmundson

Why how we read trumps what we read / Gerald Graff

"We reach the same end by discrepant means" : on Fish and humanist method / Andrew Hoberek

Writing to provoke / Jonathan Culler

Which politics? / Judith Butler

Composition studies saves the world / Patricia Bizzell

Response / Stanley Fish

Everyone's Argus : the journal editor in the academy / Jana Argersinger and Michael Cornett

The profession of journal editing / Beth Luey

What's intellectual about journal editing? / Marshall Brown

Editing is learning / John Bryant

Editing and interdisciplinarity : literature, medicine, and narrative medicine / Maura Spiegel and Rita Charon

Editing journals across languages and cultures / Rose Mary Salum

Editing in a time of dispossession : the Palestine-Israel journal, 2001-02 / Basem L. Ra'ad

The Palestine-Israel journal : an Israeli perspective, 2002 to the present / Hillel Schenker

The electronic landscape of journal editing: Computers and composition as a scholarly collective / Kristine L. Blair, Gail E. Hawisher, and Cynthia L. Selfe

Editing creativity : journals and the university creative writing program / Hilda Raz

Coda : tales from the editorial life / Contributions arranged and edited by Michael Cornett

Education in the balance : a report on the academic workforce in English / 2007 Ade Ad Hoc Committee on Staffing

Demography of the faculty: a statistical portrait of English and foreign languages / David Laurence

One faculty serving all students / Modern Language Association of America

Ending the budget wars : funding the humanities during a crisis in higher education / Christopher Newfield

Report to the Teagle Foundation on the undergraduate major in language and literature / MLA Teagle Foundation Working Group

Standing still : the associate professor survey / MLA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession

Comments on "Standing still"

Summer schools : coordinating programs to address underrepresentation among humanities doctorates / Paula M. Krebs, Ann Ardis, and Rosa Perelmuter.