The humanities and the dream of America

Introduction: the humanities as a foreign language

Beneath and beyond the "crisis in the humanities"

Roots, races, and the return to philology

Between humanity and the homeland: the evolution of an institutional concept

The next big thing in literary study: pleasure

Gold mines in Parnassus: thoughts on the integration of liberal and professional education

Melancholy in the midst of abundance: how America invented the humanities

The depths of the heights: reading Conrad with America's military.