“Talking Out of School: Academic Freedom and Extramural Speech”
Michael Bérubé
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature
Chair of the University Faculty Senate
Pennsylvania State University
March 29, 2019
2:00 p.m.
City Union Auditorium
Books
- Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up
- The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read
- The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments
- The Left at War
- Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities
- What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education
- The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies
- Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child*
- Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics
- Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon
* a New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 1996 and chosen as one of the best books of the year by Maureen Corrigan of National Public Radio
Service
- American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, 2009 to 2018
- AAUP National Council, 2005 to 2011
- International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2011 to 2017
- President of the Modern Language Association, 2012
- Director of Penn State's Institute for the Arts and Humanities, 2010 to 2017