Monsters, Inc.: Notes on the neoliberal arts education

New Literary History

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 83-95

  Freeman, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 34548494655     PISSN: 00286087     EISSN: 1080661X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nlh.2005.0020     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. See, respectively: Cathy N. Davidson and David Theo Goldberg, "A Manifesto for the Humanities in a Technological Age," The Chronicle Review, B7 February 13, 2004
2. Geoffrey Galt Harpham, "Beneath and Beyond the 'Crisis in the Humanities,"' in this volume; and Michael Bérubé, "The Utility of the Arts and Humanities," Arts and. Humanities in Higher Education 2, no. 1 (2002): 39
3. Imre Szeman, "Culture and Globalization, or, The Humanities in Ruins," The New Centennial Review 3, no. 2 (2003): 111
4. and Masao Miyoshi, "Ivory Tower in Escrow," boundary 227, no. 1 (2000) : 41-42, 50
5. See, respectively: Harpham, "Beneath and Beyond"
6. Davidson and Goldberg, "A Manifesto," B7
7. Mary Poovey, "The Twenty-First-Century University and the Market: What Price Economic Viability?" differences 12, no. 1 (2001): 11
8. Grant Farred, "Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Age of the Global University: Introduction," Nepantla 4, no. 1 (2003): 49
9. and Bérubé, "Utility," 39
10. Respectively, Walter Mignolo, "Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the Corporate University"," Nepantla: 4, no. 1 (2003): 115
11. and Natalie Melas, "Humanity/Humanities: Decolonization and the Poetics of Relation," Topoi 18, no. 1 (1999): 13-28
12. On sex panics as a way of defunding higher education, see Lisa Duggan, The Twilight of Equality (Boston: Beacon, 2003)
13. Gayatri Spivak, The Death of a Discipline (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), 13
14. Judith Halberstam has presented a convincing and cogent analysis of the radical role of Pixar films in queering children's culture. See "Transgender Feminism and the Evolution of the Clownfish," Blackwell Companion to LGBT/Q Studies (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming)
15. Bill Readings, The University in Ruins (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996), 48
16. Readings, University in Ruins, 162
17. The quotation is from Readings, University in Ruins, 9. Dale Bauer, in "Indecent Proposals: Teachers in the Movies," traces the image of the teacher in popular movies from male hero in the 1980s to postfeminist nympho in the 1990s (College English 60, no. 3 [March 1998]: 301-17)
18. Oddly enough, this rhetoric also obscures the southwardly globalizing movements of institutions like the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, which see universities as central to achieving Western hemispherical dominance in trade. The traditional humanities disciplines, least useful for trade, are most likely to find themselves left "behind" in North America. See Clyde W. Barrow, Sylvie Didou-Aupetit, and John Mallea, eds., Globalisation, Trade Liberalisation, and Higher Education in North America: The Emergence of a New Market Under NAFTA? (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)
19. Barrow et. al., Globalisation, 3
20. Poovey, "At What Price," 12