M.A.: The Johns Hopkins University, 1984.
B.A.: Brandeis University, 1980. magna cum laude, with Highest Honors in English and American Literature.
The Ohio State University, Department of English:
Assistant Professor, 1989-1995.
Stanford University, Department of English:
Assistant Professor, 1986-89.
"Why Academic Freedom Doesn't Matter." Forthcoming in South Atlantic Quarterly 108 (2009).
"Prestige" Profession 2006: 155-162
"The Uneasy Relationship Between Business and the Humanities." American Academic 1, (June 2004): 93-109.
"Avoiding the 'Cooler Tribunal of the Study,': Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Writer's Block and Late-Eighteenth Century Print Culture." ELH 68 (Winter, 2001): 831-56.
"Inevitable Politics: Rulership and Identity in Robinson Crusoe." Studies in the Novel 27 (Spring 1995): 1-11.
"Laurence Sterne and the Fantasy of Individual Patronage." Biography 18 (Spring 1995): 97-117.
"'Colonizing Readers': Review Criticism and the Formation of a Reading Public." In Ann Bermingham and John Brewer, eds., The Consumption of Culture: Image, Object, Text. (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 59-77.
"'He never gives us nothing that's low': Goldsmith's Plays and the Reviewers." ELH 55 (Fall, 1988): 665-84.
"Why Academic Freedom Doesn't Matter." American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Convention. Washington, DC. January, 2010. Keynote Address.
"Why Academic Freedom Doesn't Matter." Nancy Smith Distinguished Lecture. Coastal Carolina University. Conway, SC. November, 2009. Invited Lecture.
"Reflections on The Last Professors." University of Illinois. Urbana, IL. October, 2009. Invited Lecture. "Against Publication." Goldtrap Lecture. Iowa State University. Ames, IA. October, 2009. Invited Lecture.
"Reflections on The Last Professors" Portland State University. Portland, OR, September, 2009. Invited Lecture.
"Against Publication." Pacific Lutheran University. Tacoma, WA. September, 2009. Invited Lecture.
"Why Academic Freedom Doesn't Matter." Society for Values in Higher Education Convention. Chicago. July, 2009. Keynote Address.
"Reflections on The Last Professors" Lonestar College. Tomball, TX. May, 2009. Invited Lecture.
"Telling the Truth about Job Placement." Reworking the University Conference. Minneapolis, MN. April, 2009.
"Redesigning Scholarly Publication." College English Association. Pittsburgh, PA. March, 2009.
"Is Academic Freedom Still Defensible?" Washington State American Association of University Professors Convention. February, 2009. Keynote Address.
"Why Academic Freedom Doesn't Matter." Academic Freedom Symposium. Cornell University, February, 2009. Invited Lecture.
"Job Placement Myths and Facts." Modern Language Association. San Francisco, December, 2008.
"The Humanities in the Corporate University." Bridging the Two Cultures Symposium. Madison, Wisconsin. April, 2008. Invited Lecture.
"Against Publication." Rethinking the University Conference. Minneapolis, March, 2008. Invited Lecture.
_________. Modern Language Association. Chicago, December, 2007.
"Prestige." Modern Language Association. Washington, D.C. December, 2005.
"The Market Model and the Humanities." American Federation of Teachers Higher Education Conference. Seattle, WA, March, 2004. Invited Lecture.
"There Is No Crisis: History, Rhetoric and the Problems of the Humanities." 9th Annual Human Sciences Conference. Washington, D.C., February, 2003.
"Space in David Mamet's Oleanna." Modern Language Association. New Orleans. December, 2001.