Education
He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature from Stanford University in 1963.
president Professor of English
He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Chicago in 1959 and his Doctor of Philosophy in English and American Literature from Stanford University in 1963.
He has taught at the University of New Mexico, Northwestern University, the University of California at Irvine and at Berkeley, as well as Ohio State University, Washington University, and the University of Chicago. He has been teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago since 2000. Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma (1980)
Criticism in the University (1980)
Professing Literature: An Institutional History (1987)
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education (1993)
Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society (1979)
Clueless in Academe: How Schooling Obscures the Life of the Mind (2004)
They Say/I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (with Cathy Birkenstein) (2005).