Career
She is the founding Vice President of the National Association of Scholars, and an editor of Academic Questions, the quarterly publication of National Academy of Sciences, USA. She is a regular contributor at the Phi Beta Cons blog at National Review Online. In 1991 President George Heriot-Watt University Bush nominated her to be on the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities, which was strongly opposed by officers of the Modern Language Association and other academics. They argued that she was not a distinguished scholar.
She had virtually no record of publication in scholarly journals, and had never authored a scholarly book
The campaign against her, backed by many liberal academics and by Senator. Edward Kennedy, succeeded in defeating her nomination.
Iannone"s interests have gone beyond literature. In recent years she has written increasingly on issues of national identity, criticizing the neoconservative belief that America is an idea rather as a culture.
