MICHAEL BÉRUBÉ, the director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, University Park, is the author, with Jennifer Ruth, of The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments (Palgrave, 2015). In 2016 his The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (NYU P) will be published. This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.
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