Critical University Studies Syllabus

Date Published: 2/1/2022
 

The articles, special issues, and books collected in this syllabus are part of a critical and complex reflection on the higher education system and knowledge production. Touching on topics of structural racism, gender, the uneven distribution of resources, coloniality, academic labor, and the effects of university financialization, the syllabus provides insight into critical inquiries of the university system and its histories, and reflects on directions for future frameworks for higher education.

What Does a Good Teacher Do Now?: Crafting Communities of Care

Jathan Day, Sarah Hughes, Crystal Zanders, Kathryn Van Zanen, and Andrew Moos
Pedagogy 21:3, 2021

Educational Undergrowth

Nathan Snaza and Julietta Singh, editors
Social Text 146, 2021

Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University

Matt Brim
2020

What Is the University For?

Premesh Lalu
Critical Times 2:1, 2019

Pedagogy: Critical Practices for a Changing World

Carol Batker, Eden Osucha, and Augusta Rohrbach, editors
American Literature 89:2, 2017

Cluster on Teaching Theory in Global Contexts

Gautam Basu Thakur and Helena Gurfinkel, editors
Pedagogy 21:3, 2021

Decolonizing Diversity: The Transnational Politics of Minority Racial Difference

Anneeth Kaur Hundle
Public Culture 31:2, 2019

The Ocean in the School: Pacific Islander Students Transforming Their University

Rick Bonus
2020

Global Humanities: A Roundtable

Timothy Mitchell and Anupama Rao, editors
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 37:1, 2017

Passion, Generosity, and the Academy: Meridians Interview with Ruth J. Simmons

Ruth J. Simmons
Meridians 3:1, 2002

Straight A's: Asian American College Students in Their Own Words

Christine R. Yano and Neal K. Adolph Akatsuka, editors
2018

Coming Due: Accounting for Debt, Counting on Crisis

Annie McClanahan
South Atlantic Quarterly 110:2, 2011

Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

Elizabeth Kiss and J. Peter Euben, editors
2009

Dancing with the Dilemmas of a Decolonizing Pedagogy

Carlos Tejeda
Radical History Review 102, 2008

Decolonizing Trans/Gender Studies?: Teaching Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Times of the Rise of the Global Right

Alyosxa Tudor
Transgender Studies Quarterly 8:2, 2021

Complaint!

Sara Ahmed
2021

What's Really New about the Neoliberal University? The Business of American Education Has Always Been Business

Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Labor 18:4, 2021

Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary

Isaac A. Kamola
2019

The Living Indebted: Student Militancy and the Financialization of Debt

Annie McClanahan
Qui Parle 20:1, 2011

The Israel/Palestine Field School: Decoloniality and the Geopolitics of Knowledge

Alex Lubin, Les W. Field, Melanie K. Yazzie, and Jakob Schiller
Social Text 31:4 (117), 2013

The Studious University: A Marxist-Psychoanalytic Groundwork

David I. Backer; Tyson E. Lewis
Cultural Politics 11:3, 2015

Against The Day: Universities As New Battlegrounds

Zeynep Gambetti and Saygun Gökarıksel, editors
South Atlantic Quarterly 121:1, 2022

Critical Credos

the minnesota review 71-72, 2009
This 2009 issue includes "critical credos" that look at how criticism addresses the politics of literature, culture, higher education, and work in academia. The contributors give statements of belief about the kind of criticism they favor and where they think this criticism should go.

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