Neoliberalism & the American University
Primary Number: AMST 30134
ConStudies Number: CNST 30647
ConStudies CRN: 18567
Primary CRN: 18401, 18417
Instructor: Cheuk, Eric
Day/Time: MW 12:30-1:45
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Location: O'Shaughnessy Hall 210
This course examines the recent history of the American university. It asks how the last four decades of political-economic restructuring often described as “neoliberalism” – skyrocketing personal debt, privatization of public goods, and more – have reshaped its social function and institutional structure, its labor struggles and relation to local communities. Through readings in critical university studies, ethnic studies, and American literature, we will build a conceptual vocabulary to critically engage these transformations and, in the process, ask fundamental questions about the modern university: what it is, who it is for, and what it might yet be.