Dr. Samuel Solomon
Library Reading List for "Literature in the Institution"
CORE (any editions acceptable unless noted):
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
Chris Baldick, The Social Mission of English Criticism
Sarah Brouillette, Literature and the Creative Economy
Piya Chatterjee, ed. The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent
Stefan Collini, What Are Universities For?
Silvia Federici et al, eds. A Thousand Flowers: Social Struggles Against Structural
Adjustment in African Universities
Roderick Ferguson, The Reorder of Things: The University and its Pedagogies of
Minority Difference
Gerald Graff, Professing Literature: An Institutional History
John Guillory, Cultural Capital
Peggy Kamuf, The Division of Literature
Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of the Faculties
David Lloyd and Paul Thomas, Culture and the State
Mark McGurl, The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
Cary Nelson, Repression and Recovery
Christopher Newfield, The Unmaking of the Public University
Bill Readings, The University in Ruins
Kristin Ross, May '68 and Its Afterlives
Friedrich Schiller, Letter on the Aesthetic Education of Man
Gauri Viswanathan, Masks of Conquest :Literary Study and British Rule in India
RECOMMENDED (any editions acceptable):
Louis Althusser, On Reproduction
Ruth Barcan, Academic Life and Labour in the New University
Marc Bousquet, How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation
Wendy Brown, Edgework
Thomas Docherty, For the University
Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics
Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Henry Giroux, Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
Gerald Graff and Michael Warner, eds. The Origins of Literary Studies in America: A
Documentary Anthology
Katie Hagan and Michelle A. Masse, eds. Over Ten Million Served: Gendered Service in
Language and Literature Workplaces
Chad Harbach, Ed. MFA vs. NYC: The Two Cultures of American Fiction
David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism
John Holmwood, A Manifesto for the Public University
Ian Hunter, Culture and Government
Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University
Francis Mulhern, The Moment of Scrutiny
David Noble, Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education
Martha Nussbaum, Not for Profit
Ellen Rooney, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory.
Robert Scholes, The Rise and Fall of English: Reconstructing English as a Discipline
Jennifer Washburn, University, Inc.
Samuel Weber, Institution and Interpretation