Michael Bérubé

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Michael Bérubé
Academic background
Education
Academic work
DisciplineCultural studies
Institutions

Michael Bérubé (born 1961) is

disability rights, liberal and conservative politics, and debates in higher education. From 2010 to 2017, he was the Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State; from 1997 to 2001 he was the founding director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. He was the 2012 president of the Modern Language Association, and served as vice president from 2010–2011. He served two terms on the National Council of the American Association of University Professors from 2005 to 2011, and three terms on the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure from 2009 to 2018. He was a member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes
for two terms, 2011-2017. Bérubé was named a University Scholar for research at the University of Illinois in 1995 and was awarded the Faculty Scholar medal for research from Penn State in 2012.

Life, education and career

The son of Maurice Berube (now Eminent Scholar Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at Old Dominion University),

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign from 1989 to 2001, where he was affiliated with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory and the Afro-American Studies and Research Program. In 2001, Bérubé moved to Penn State for the then-newly created Paterno Family Professorship in Literature, from which he resigned in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal.[3]

From 1996 to 2016, Bérubé edited "Cultural Front", the New York University Press series which published his 2009 book The Left at War and his 1998 book The Employment of English, as well as fifteen other titles, many in disability studies. He now co-edits "Crip: New Directions in Disability Studies" for NYU Press along with Robert McRuer and Ellen Samuels. He maintained a personal blog from 2004 to 2010 and wrote for Crooked Timber from 2007 to 2012.[citation needed]

Publications and achievements

Bérubé drew attention in the early 1990s for his essays in the

Chronicle of Higher Education
.

Bérubé's third book, Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child, was published in 1996. Following a positive review by Beverly Lowry,

National Public Radio.[6]
It is an expanded account of Jamie's first four years, as well as a discussion of disability rights, abortion and prenatal testing, early intervention programs, early childhood language acquisition, school policy, and theories of justice.

In 2005-06, Bérubé emerged as a critic of

9/11 and the invasion of Afghanistan, though he said he opposed the Iraq War; the argument was elaborated in his seventh book, The Left At War, published in 2009.[7][8]
In 2016 Bérubé published two books in disability studies: The Secret Life of Stories, a study of narrative strategies involving varieties of intellectual disability, and Life as Jamie Knows It, a sequel to Life as We Know It written with substantial input from the now-adult Jamie Bérubé. In 2021, the Norton Library (W. W. Norton) published his edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. In 2022, he published It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and Academic Freedom with Jennifer Ruth.

Bérubé lives in State College, Pennsylvania, with his wife Janet Lyon. Their first child, Nicholas, is an architect working in Boston.[citation needed]

Selected works

Author
  • Bérubé, Michael (1992). Marginal forces/cultural centers : Tolson, Pynchon, and the politics of the canon.
  • Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics (1994)
  • Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996)
  • The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies (1998)
  • What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts? Classroom Politics and "Bias" in Higher Education (2006)
  • Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities (2006)
  • The Left at War (2009)
  • The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments (with Jennifer Ruth,
    ISBN 1137506105
    , 2015)
  • The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read (
    ISBN 1479823619
    , 2016)
  • Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up (
    ISBN 0807019313
    , 2016)
  • It's Not Free Speech: Race, Democracy, and Academic Freedom (with Jennifer Ruth,
    ISBN 978-1-4214-4387-4
    , 2022)
Editor
Book reviews
  • Bérubé, Michael (Spring 1994). "Beneath the return to the valley of the culture wars". Contemporary Literature. 35 (1): 212–227.
    JSTOR 1208745
    .
  • review[citation needed] of Gates, Henry Louis Jr. (1992). Loose canons: notes on the culture wars. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • review[citation needed] of Graff, Gerald (1992). Beyond the culture wars: how teaching the conflicts can revitalize American education. New York: W. W. Norton.

References

  1. ^ "Faculty Emeriti". Old Dominion University. Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  2. ^ Williams, Jeffrey J. (Fall 2006). "Public Essayist: An Interview with Michael Bérubé". Minnesota Review. Archived from the original on March 31, 2014. Retrieved August 4, 2014.
  3. ^ Bérubé, Michael (15 October 2012). "Why I Resigned the Paterno Chair". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 9 July 2014.
  4. ^ Williams, Jeffrey. "Interview with Michael Bérubé". The Conversant. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  5. ^ Lowry, Beverly (27 October 1996). "We Can Handle This". New York Times. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
  6. ^ Corrigan, Maureen (December 16, 1996). "Holiday picks". National Public Radio. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
  7. ^ "The Left at War". Archived from the original on 2021-07-21. Retrieved 2021-07-21.[ISBN missing]
  8. ^ Berube, Michael. "Peace Puzzle". Boston Globe. Retrieved 4 June 2014.

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