""Dangerous Professors" is pertinent, well-executed, and apt to
introduce new and helpful perspectives regarding the present
meaning and value of academic freedom in the U.S. university system
and, by extension, U.S. public and civil society generally."
---Adam Green, University of Chicago
Through various examinations of past and current threats to
academic freedom, "Dangerous Professors" investigates the status of
such freedom in the aftermath of 9/11. Bringing together scholars
in literature, law, and American Studies, the collection of essays
seeks to understand academic freedom in historical perspective by
focusing on the key documents that have defined its current
meaning, and then to analyze the ways in which this concept
protects but also limits critical voices on campus. Including
essays from academics (Ward Churchill and Robert Jensen) who have
been directly involved in recent controversies about academic
freedom, "Dangerous Professors" provides a timely and critical look
at the battle over educational curricula and institutions
today.
Malini Johar Schueller is Professor of English at the University
of Florida and author of several books and publications, including
"U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature,
1790-1890" (1998) and the forthcoming "Locating Race: Global Sites
of Post-Colonial Citizenship" (2009).
Ashley Dawson is Associate Professor of English at the Graduate
Center, City University of New York (CUNY), and at the College of
Staten Island, where he specializes in postcolonial studies. He is
the author of "Mongrel Nation: Diasporic Culture and the Making of
Postcolonial Britain" (2007) and coeditor of "Exceptional State:
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism" (2007).
Professor Dawson is also a member of the Social Text editorial
collective.
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