Volume 7, Numbers 1-2

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Essays investigating the role of affiliation in contemporary academic life: how affiliations to colleges, disciplines, specializations and theoretical positions impact academic careers, the relationship between affiliation and change in academia, the nature of academic inquiry and its connection to affiliation, and the links among disciplinarity, identity and affiliation. The remainder of the essays show us how the identification of an author’s literary, cultural and theoretical affiliations can play a significant part in a more general understanding of their work.

Contents

Joseph R. Urgo
The Affiliation Blues

Marjorie Perloff
Poetry and Affiliation

Terry Caesar
Affiliation, Specialization and Mourning

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
On Being and Becoming Affiliated

James Sosnoski and Eve Wiederhold
Querelous Inquiries

David R. Shumway
Disciplinary Identities

Cary Nelson
Affiliation and Change

Jamie Owen Daniel
‘You’re (Still) a Marxist, Aren’t You?’

Robert Con Davis-Undiano
Poe’s Affiliation with Freemasonry

Caryl Emerson
Berlin, Bakhtin and Relativistic Affiliations

William Slaymaker
The Disaffections of Postcolonial Affiliations

Susanna Ashton
Authorial Affiliations