Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today

Author/Contributor(s):	Franklin, Cynthia G
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Date:	07/01/2009
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Bérubé, Cathy N. Davidson, Jane Gallop, bell hooks, Edward Said, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianna Torgovnick, Academic Lives considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.