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'''Cary Nelson''' (1946), professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], was president of the [[American Association of University Professors]] between 2006 and 2012. |
'''Cary Nelson''' (1946), professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], was president of the [[American Association of University Professors]] between 2006 and 2012. |
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==Biography== |
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He received his [[Ph.D]] in English from [[University of Rochester]] 1970 and is a 1967 graduate of [[Antioch College]]. His scholarship of the 1970s and 80s worked to expand the canon of modern American poetry, and since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of [[Alan Wald]], "With the appearance of ''Manifesto of a Tenured Radical'' in 1997, Cary became an example of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time employees, and campus workers."<ref>[http://www.cary-nelson.org/nelson/aboutcarynelson.html]</ref> Nelson has also played an important role in promoting [[cultural studies]] in the American academy, and in 1981 he founded the [[Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory]] at the University of Illinois. |
He received his [[Ph.D]] in English from [[University of Rochester]] 1970 and is a 1967 graduate of [[Antioch College]]. His scholarship of the 1970s and 80s worked to expand the canon of modern American poetry, and since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of [[Alan Wald]], "With the appearance of ''Manifesto of a Tenured Radical'' in 1997, Cary became an example of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time employees, and campus workers."<ref>[http://www.cary-nelson.org/nelson/aboutcarynelson.html]</ref> Nelson has also played an important role in promoting [[cultural studies]] in the American academy, and in 1981 he founded the [[Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory]] at the University of Illinois. |
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Revision as of 21:23, 4 April 2013
Cary Nelson (1946), professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was president of the American Association of University Professors between 2006 and 2012.
He received his Ph.D in English from University of Rochester 1970 and is a 1967 graduate of Antioch College. His scholarship of the 1970s and 80s worked to expand the canon of modern American poetry, and since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of Alan Wald, "With the appearance of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical in 1997, Cary became an example of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time employees, and campus workers."[1] Nelson has also played an important role in promoting cultural studies in the American academy, and in 1981 he founded the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory at the University of Illinois.
Nelson was elected to a two-year term as president of the AAUP in April 2006 and was re-elected until 2012. For the previous six years, he had been the second vice president of the AAUP. In April 2006 he was arrested, along with over 50 others (including Jane Buck, the outgoing president of the AAUP), as part of a unionization effort by New York University's graduate teaching assistants.[2]
Nelson has been an outspoken critic of the corporatization of university education in general; he has recently been involved in the widespread academic response to the so-called "Five Year Plan" for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida[citation needed].
He has published or edited twenty five books, including Manifesto of a Tenured Radical and Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. His academic focus is on modern American poetry.[3]
Bibliography
- The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1973. (285 pp.)
- Our Last First Poets: Vision and History in ContemporaryAmerican Poetry. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981. (220 pp., paperback edition: 1984). (Spanish translation: Cary Nelson, Poetas Norteamericanos de Hoy (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Ediciones Corregidor, 1984)
- Repression and Recovery: Modern American Poetry and The Politics of Cultural Memory, 1910-1945. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. (336 pp., Selected as a Choice Academic Book of the Year.) (paperback: 1991)
- Shouts from the Wall: Posters and Photographs Brought Back from the Spanish Civil War by American Volunteers. Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives / Distributed by the University of Illinois Press, 1996. (80 pp., 8.5 by 11 inches; publication supported by grants from the Puffin Foundation and the Charles Lawence Keith and Clara Miller Foundation)
- Manifesto of a Tenured Radical. New York: New York University Press, 1997. (243 pp.)
- Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education. (with Stephen Watt) New York and London: Routledge, 1999. (350 pp.)
- Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. (270 pp.) (paperback: 2003).
- Office Hours: Activism and Change in the Academy. (with Stephen Watt) New York and London: Routledge, 2004 (230 pp.).
- No University Is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom. New York University Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-8147-5859-5
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