Description: Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.
Review Quotes:
"...[a] stimulating, wide-ranging book." -- symploke
"To sustain the university and enable it to enrich American culture, we need to redefine the communities dedicated to research. This book creates such a community." -- Cary Nelson
"Cary Nelson exemplifies the committed intellectual. This book recognizes him as a faculty model in just the way one wants: a readable, learned, and politically astute collection full of love and rage." -- Paula Rabinowitz, author of They Must Be Represented: The Politics of Documentary
"Rarely do a scholar's civic and intellectual pursuits blend as naturally and seamlessly as they have in Cary Nelson's career. It would be difficult for a single volume to do justice to the breadth and interconnectedness of such a scholar's contributions. Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University does so impressively. The essays collected here attest admirably to his remarkable influence as poetry scholar, tireless and astute activist in the struggle for integrity in education, and engaged mentor." -- Adolph Reed Jr., author of Class Notes: Posing as Politics and Other Thoughts on the American Scene