Academic Lives by Cynthia G Franklin
Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Berube, Cathy Davidson, Jane Gallop, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianne Torgovnick, this title considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.
Tracing the rise of academic memoir to anxieties about the status of cultural theory, Academic Lives gives the genre the critical recognition and comprehensive survey it deservesCynthia G. Franklin is unsparing in her critique of the academic memoir's tendency to substitute individual feeling for institutional analysis, but her ultimate goal is to show the genre's potential for reshaping the humanities and public intellectual discourse. Academic Lives is indispensable reading not only for those interested in memoir but for those interested in the future of the university. - Ann Cvetkovich, author of An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
CYNTHIA G. FRANKLIN is a professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, and coeditor of the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Her publications include Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies and Personal Effects: The Testimonial Uses of Life Writing, a special issue of Biography that she coedited with Laura E. Lyons.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780820333434 |
| ISBN 10 | 0820333433 |
| Title | Academic Lives |
| Author | Cynthia G Franklin |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
| Year published | 2009-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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