Academia Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/academia/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Academia Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/academia/ 32 32 Can You Predict What You’ll Need? Talking Time, Space, and Disability with Margaret Price https://www.publicbooks.org/can-you-predict-what-youll-need-talking-time-space-and-disability-with-margaret-price/ Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58983 “The experience of disability has this curious hard-to-see quality, even while also being weirdly out in the open, garishly apparent.”

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]]> “Parallel Tracks”: Sophie Ratcliffe on Academia, Memoirs, and Motherhood https://www.publicbooks.org/parallel-tracks-sophie-ratcliffe-on-academia-memoirs-and-motherhood/ Fri, 13 Dec 2024 16:00:52 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=58399 “I used to want to experience everything. I don’t anymore.”

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]]> Frivolity Is Not Unserious https://www.publicbooks.org/frivolity-is-not-unserious/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:00:29 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57329 “When we try to write about trauma, no matter what the trauma we wish to explore, it’s the poet’s job to do their homework.”

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]]> Public Thinker: Jonathan Kramnick on the Craft of Criticism amid Institutional Decline https://www.publicbooks.org/public-thinker-jonathan-kramnick-on-the-craft-of-criticism-amid-institutional-decline/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=57091 “Arguments stand or fall to the degree to which the practice is done well.”

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]]> Galaxy Brain https://www.publicbooks.org/galaxy-brain/ Thu, 27 Jun 2024 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56751 Teaching is a collective project. What happens when we see it that way?

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]]> Interpret or Judge?: John Guillory on the Future of Literary Criticism https://www.publicbooks.org/interpret-or-judge-john-guillory-on-the-future-of-literary-criticism/ Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:21 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56049 “‘Professing criticism’ is a contradiction and maybe even an impossibility. I’d like to hope that it’s not, that it’s just an innovation, historically.”

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]]> “The Joke’s Ultimately on Me”: “Diabetic of Enlightenment” on Academic Twitter https://www.publicbooks.org/the-jokes-ultimately-on-me-diabetic-of-enlightenment-on-academic-twitter/ Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:00:01 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55927 When it comes to academia, we live in a moment of heightened contradictions. And yet, graduate students and junior professors are frequently told we mustn’t rock the boat even as it sinks farther and farther into the neoliberal abyss. The weight of this disconnect was bound to break eventually. Twitter, now regrettably known as X, […]

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]]> Shoptalk: Overheard at ASA 2023 or MLA 2024? https://www.publicbooks.org/shoptalk-overheard-at-asa-2023-or-mla-2024/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55299 This edition of Shoptalk asks: Can you guess which of the following was overheard at ASA 2023 and which was overheard at MLA 2024?

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]]> A #MeToo Novel That Must Be Read #WithYou https://www.publicbooks.org/a-metoo-novel-that-must-be-read-withyou/ Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:00:12 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55132 A South Korean novel critiques violent misogyny within a literature department. Remarkably, it does so by addressing the reader directly.

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]]> Publishers and Scholars, Unite! https://www.publicbooks.org/publishers-and-scholars-unite/ Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53546 Universities have disinvested from their presses just as much as their humanities departments and libraries. Will working together stop it?

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