PMLA – Bookish

Introduction: The Time of the Semipublic Intellectual

October 22, 2015 Phillip Maciak PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

LILI LOOFBOUROW is finishing her dissertation, “Excremental Virtue: Eating and Reading in the Age of Milton,” at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work has appeared in venues including the New York Times Magazine, the Guardian, Salon, the New Republic, The Awl, The Hairpin, and The New Inquiry.

PHILLIP MACIAK is assistant professor of English and film and media arts at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Adaptation, J19, Film Quarterly, Slate, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is at work on a book about secularism and American visual culture in the silent era to be entitled The Disappearing Christ.

This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.

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Profession, Revise Thyself—Again

October 22, 2015 Michael Bérubé PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

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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Everybody’s Authority

October 22, 2015 Natalia Cecire PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

NATALIA CECIRE, a lecturer (assistant professor) in English and American literature at the University of Sussex, is working on a book project titled “Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge.” This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.

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In the Context of Infinite Contexts

October 22, 2015 Hua Hsu PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

HUA HSU is an associate professor of English at Vassar College. He is a 2014–15 Ford Academic Fellow at New America, and his first book is A Floating Chinaman (Harvard UP, forthcoming). This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.

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Growing Up in Public: Academia, Journalism, and the New Public Intellectual

October 22, 2015 Evan Kindley PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

EVAN KINDLEY, a visiting instructor at Claremont McKenna College and a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, recently completed a manuscript entitled “Critics and Connoisseurs: Poet-Critics and the Administration of Modernism.” This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.

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How to Talk about Books You Have Read

October 22, 2015 Sharon Marcus PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

SHARON MARCUS is dean of humanities and Orlando Harriman Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. She is completing a book on Sarah Bernhardt and theatrical celebrity in the nineteenth century. This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.

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Make Revolution Irresistible: The Role of the Cultural Worker in the Twenty-First Century

October 22, 2015 Nicky Agate PMLA, The Semipublic Intellectual

SALAMISHAH TILLET, an associate professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, is the author of Sites of Slavery: Citizenship and Racial Democracy in the Post–Civil Rights Imagination (Duke UP, 2012) and a cofounder of the Chicago-based nonprofit A Long Walk Home. This article was first published in the March 2015 issue of PMLA.

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