CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Recognizing the Human in the Humanities
PART ONE Ideals and Cautions
1 SCHOLARLY MEMOIR An Un-“Professional” Practice
2 IN THE NAME OF THE SUBJECT Some Recent Versions of the Personal
PART TWO Self-Inclusion in Literary Scholarship
3 RADICAL INTROSPECTION IN SCHOLARSHIP AND TEACHING
4 LOSS, MEMORY, AND THE WORK OF LEARNING Lessons from the Teaching Life of Anne Sexton
PART THREE Teaching and Scholarship Face to Face
5 “KNOWLEDGE HAS A FACE” The Jewish, the Personal, and the Pedagogical
6 “WHO WAS THAT MASKED AUTHOR?” The Faces of Academic Editing
PART FOUR Teaching and Scholarship Public and Private
7 AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Mixed Genre of Private and Public
8 THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF “EXPRESSIVIST ” PEDAGOGY
9 LIFE WORK THROUGH TEACHING AND SCHOLARSHIP
10 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE PAPER
11 “THE WORLD NEVER ENDS” Professional Judgments at Home, Abroad
PART FIVE The Social Character of Personal Narrative
12 LEARNING TO TAKE IT PERSONALLY
13 CUENTOS DE MI HISTORIA An Art of Memory
14 PERSONAL LANDMARKS ON PEDAGOGICAL LANDSCAPES
15 THE ANXIETY AND NOSTALGIA OF LITERACY A Narrative about Race, Language, and a Teaching Life
16 WHERE I’M COMING FROM Memory, Location, And The (Un)making of National Subjectivity
17 THE PERSONAL AS HISTORY
REFERENCES
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX