Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today

by Cynthia G . Franklin (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $38.09

  Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Berube, Cathy Davidson, Jane Gallop, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianne Torgovnick, this title considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.