TY - JOUR
AU - Wisecup, Kelly
AB - Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/86/1/87/2247281/87wisecup.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 02 April 2025 Kelly Wisecup Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies. By Jonathan Kramnick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. viii + 129 pp. One of my unresolved questions for Jonathan Kramnick’s Criticism and Truth is: For whom was this book written? Since I returned frequently to the question of audience as I read, I begin my review by briefly describing my own position in academe to be forthright about the kind of audience member I am. I am a professor of English at Northwestern University, and my department has a PhD program, an MFA/MA program, and a small MA in Literature program. My research expertise is in early Amer- ican and early Indigenous literatures. In 2022–23 I was interim director of Northwestern’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, a position from which I found myself trying to advocate for the humanities in front of very different audiences, from donors and our newly appointed uni- versity president to our deans, first-year undergraduates, and faculty affili- ates. Before coming to Northwestern, I taught for six years at the Uni- versity of North Texas, a large, Hispanic-serving public university north of 
TI - Recontextualizing “Radical Dislocation”
JF - Modern Language Quarterly
DO - 10.1215/00267929-11521230
DA - 2025-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/recontextualizing-radical-dislocation-CcoAp7CcrJ
SP - 87
EP - 94
VL - 86
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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