Articles, papers, and chapters

2024
• “Deprovincializing Criticism: On Bruce Robbins’s “Criticism and Politics”,” Los Angeles Review of Books (March 24, 2024).
• “Racial Equality After Affirmative Action: Towards a New Structure of Feeling,” Los Angeles Review of Books (January 26, 2024).

2023
• “Criticism After This Crisis:Toward a National Strategy for Literary and Cultural Study (MLA Presidential Address),” Representations, Volume 164, Issue 1 (November 2023).
• “How to Make ‘AI’ Intelligent; Or, the Question of Epistemic Equality,” Critical AI, Volume 1, Issue 1-2 (October 2023).
• “Anthropology in the thick of it, or post-professional society finds its analyst,” (on Susan Wright), Learning and Teaching, Volume 16, Issue 3 (Winter 2023).
• “Literary Criticism As An Interdiscipline,” Criticism Ltd., The American Vandal (August 13, 2023).
•“Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett,” International Politics (May 7, 2023).
•“Forward”, Stanton Glantz: Putting Cardiovascular, Epidemiological, Economic, Political, and Policy Research into Action at UC San Francisco and Beyond, University of California Digital Repository (February 2023).
•”The Neoliberal Superego of Education Policy: Institutional reform is no match for pervasive structural inequality,” Boston Review (January 18, 2023).
•”Post-Automated Luxury Criticism,” MLA Newsletter (January 6, 2023).

2022
•”The Perpetual Job Crisis Needs a National Strategy,” MLA Newsletter (November 16, 2022).
•”The Humanities Crisis is a Funding Crisis,” MLA Newsletter (Summer 2022).
•”Le università dopo il neoliberalismo (Seconda parte),” Machina (June 21, 2022).
•”Le università dopo il neoliberalismo (Prima parte),” Machina (June 14, 2022).
•”Introduction,” with Anna Alexandrova and Stephen John, The Limits of the Numerical (2022).
•”The Role of the Numerical in the Decline of Expertise,” The Limits of the Numerical (2022).
• “The Purposes and Provisioning of Higher Education: Can Economics and Humanities Perspectives be Reconciled?,” with Aashish Mehta, The Limits of the Numerical (2022).
•”Research for All,” MLA Newsletter (May 12, 2022).
•”Suboptimal by Design: On Laura T. Hamilton and Kelly Nielsen’s ‘Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities’,” Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) (May 8, 2022).
•”Breaking Out,” Living (with) Crisis, Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Bulletin XXV (May 2022).
•”Review of Brian Cantwell Smith’s ‘The Promise of Artificial Intelligence’,” Critical AI (April 13, 2022).
•”1990 to 2020: How Did We Get Here?,” Critical Times Volume 5, Issue 1 (April 1, 2022).
• “Introduction: The University at The End of the World,” with Keri Facer, Critical Times Volume 5, Issue 1 (April 1, 2022).
•”Grotesque Inequity: Christopher Newfield on Higher Education,” with Jeffrey J. Williams, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) (February 1, 2022).
•”Newfield on Newsom,” Academe  (January 13, 2022).

2021
• “Old Neoliberalism in the U.S. University,” Labor Notes (December 2021).
•”A Socialist Alternative to Human Capital Theory?,” with Aashish Mehta, Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) (November 19, 2021).
• “Post Individualism,” Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Bulletin XXIV (October 2021).
• “Academia After the Pandemic,” roundtable with Tressie McMillan Cottom, Maggie Doherty, Nils Gilman, Adam Harris, and Timothy Shenk, Dissent (Fall 2021).
• “Opening a Window on Higher Ed: An Interview with Christopher Newfield,” by Jeffrey J. Williams, Symploke (Fall 2021).
• “Universities After Neoliberalism: A Tale of Four Futures,” Radical Philosophy 2.10 (Summer 2021).
• “Budget Justice: Addressing the structural racism of higher education funding,” Academe (Spring 2021).

2020
• “Emergent and Residual Elements in U.S. White Supremacy,” Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) Bulletin XXII (December 2020).
• “California Dreaming: Clark Kerr and the State University,” in Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960s, eds. Jill Pellew and Miles Taylor (November 12, 2020). 
• “Do We Really Need Governing Boards?,” Academe Blog  (19 August 2020).
• “How Do We Stop Calling the Police?,” Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) blog (August 3, 2020).
• “Going Online Due to COVID-19 This Fall Could Hurt Colleges’ Future,” The Conversation (June 11, 2020).
• “Academic Freedom as Democratization,” Academe Blog (Spring 2020).
• “Only Free College Can Save Us From This Crisis,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 9, 2020).

2019
• “Higher Ed on Autopilot,” Los Angeles Review of Books (December 17, 2019)
• “The Trouble with Numerical Culture,” MLA Profession (Fall 2019).
• “Innovation and the Neoliberal University: Notes Towards the Next Phase,” Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Rupture (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019).
• Review of Jerry Z. Muller, The Tyranny of Metrics, British Journal of Sociology (2019).

2018
• “What Is Literary Knowledge of Economy?,” The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, eds. Michelle Chihara and Matthew Seybold (Routledge, 2018).
• “Yes to the New Education, But What Kind?” PMLA (May 2018).
• “Student Debt and the Social Functions of Consolidation College,” in The Debt Age, eds. Jeffrey DiLeo, Peter Hitchcock, and Sophia McClennan (Routledge, forthcoming), pp 197-213.
• “Does Online Deepen the Color Line?” Inside Higher Ed (March 20, 2018). 
• “Have We Wrecked Public Universities? The Case of the American Decline Cycle,” British Journal of Sociology (March 2018).
• “When America Flunked Democracy: City-Mystery Origins of Political Gridlock,” in American Mysterymania: Du récit des bas-fonds au film noir et au Steampunk / From Underworld Fiction to Film Noir and Steampunk, Medias19. (2018).


2017
•Review of  Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education, eds. Michael W. Kirst and Mitchell L. Stevens,  Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (Winter 2017). 
• “Feeding a Dangerous Fiction” Inside Higher Ed (October 19, 2017).
• “Metrics Noir” (with Heather Steffen), Los Angeles Review of Books (October 11, 2017).
• Interview on The Great Mistake, Part 2, Full Stop (September 7, 2017).
• Interview on The Great Mistake, Part 1, Full Stop (September 5, 2017).
• “Arts and Humanities Education as Neo-liberalism Comes Unglued: The Case of Yale in Singapore” PARSE Journal (May 2017).
• “The Real Value of Abolishing Tuition Fees in England,” Wonkhe (May 15, 2017).
• “Research cuts follow not just from Trump’s mayhem, but from the university’s great mistake,” Inside Higher Ed (April 13, 2017).

2016
• “Higher Education and ‘Identity Politics‘,” Academe Blog (November 26, 2016).
• “Higher Ed Policy After the Election,” Academe Blog (November 15, 2016).
• “The Nation’s Electoral Divisions Highlight Questions about the Role of Public Universities,” Inside Higher Ed (November 4, 2016).
• “New Roles for Academia? The American University and the Knowledge Economy,” in Knowledge Landscapes North America, eds. Christian Kloeckner, Simone Knewitz and Sabine Sielke (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2016), pp 23-43.
• “Aftermath of the MOOC Wars: Can Commercial Vendors Support Creative Higher Education?” Learning and Teaching 9: 2 (Summer 2016): 12–41.
• “The Management Model Driving Wisconsin’s #FakeTenure Saga” Academe Blog (April 8, 2016).
• “The New Normal Isn’t Normal–It Erodes Democracy,” Academe Blog (February 29, 2016).
• “Top Trends for 2016 Higher Ed: Earth 2 Edition,” Academe Blog (January 14, 2016).

2015
• “The Humanities as Service Departments: Facing the Budget Logic,” MLA Profession (December 2015).
• “Are UK Universities Being Cast Academically Adrift?” Wonkhe (November 17, 2015).
• “What are the Humanities For? Rebuilding the Public University,” in A New Deal for the Humanities: Liberal Arts and the Future of Public Higher Education, eds. Gordon Hutner and Feisal G. Mohamed (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2015).
• “Professorial Anger, Then and Now,” Chronicle Review (October 25, 2015)
• “Time for a New Strategy,” Inside Higher Ed (July 20, 2015).
• “What Is New About the New American University?” The Los Angeles Review of Books (April 7, 2015).

2014
• “Is College Still Worth It?” The Los Angeles Review of Books (September 29, 2014).
• “Christensen’s Disruptive Innovation after the Lepore Critique,” Academe Blog (June 2014).
• “Learning From Solyndra: Changing Paradigms in the US Innovation System,” in Nanotechnology and Development: What’s In It for Emerging Countries? Ed. Shyama V. Ramani (Cambridge University Press, 2014), pp 39-72.
• “At Parliament’s Select Committee Hearing on Student Loans,” Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) at University of Cambridge (January 2014).

2013
• “Humanities Creativity in the Age of Online,” Occasion (Fall 2013).
• “The Counterreformation in Higher Education,” Los Angeles Review of Books (October, 2013).
• “Corporate Open Source: Intellectual Property and the Struggle over Value,” Radical Philosophy 181 (Sept/Oct 2013): 6-12.
• “On ‘The Academic Rat Race’,” Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences (LATISS) (Fall 2013).
• “Where Are the Savings?” Inside Higher Ed (June 24, 2013).
• “Obama Unwound: The Romanticism of Victory and the Defeat of Compromise,” in The Imaginary and Its Worlds: American Studies after the Transnational Turn, ed. Laura Bieger, Ramon Saldivar, and Johannes Voelz (New England University Presses, 2013).
• Review of Hannah Holborn Gray, Searching for Utopia: Universities and Their Histories, History of Education Quarterly 53:1 (February 2013): 107-110.

2012
• “A Transatlantic Conversation on Responsible Innovation and Responsible Governance,” (multiple authors), in Little by Little: Expansions of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies, eds. Harro van Lente, Christopher Coenen, Torsten Fleischer, Kornelia Konrad, Lotte Krabbenborg, Colin Milburn, Frank Seifert, and François Thoreau (Dordrecht: AKA-Verlag/IOS Press, 2012).
• “Does Solar Energy Need a New Innovation Model? The Case of Germany,” in Little by Little: Expansions of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies, ed. Harro van Lente, Christopher Coenen, Torsten Fleischer, Kornelia Konrad, Lotte Krabbenborg, Colin Milburn, Frank Seifert, and François Thoreau (Dordrecht: AKA-Verlag/IOS Press, 2012), pp. 135-55.
• “Democrats Need a Huge Push to Fix Public Higher Education,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (November 26, 2012).
• “Presidential Debate: Obama Takes a Dive,” Huffington Post (October 12, 2012).
• “Romney’s America Doesn’t Need Public Colleges,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 25, 2012).
• “La dette étudiante, une bombe à retardement,” Le Monde Diplomatique (Sep-2012).
• “How Unequal State Support Diminishes Degree Attainment,” Chronicle of Higher Education (April 20, 2012), p 24.
• “Is Nanoscale Collaboration Meeting Nanotechnology’s Social Challenge? A Call to Nano-Normalcy,” in The Social Life of Nanotechnology  eds. Barbara Herr Harthorn and John Mohr (New York: Routledge, 2012).
• “Can Selective Immigration Help the Innovation Crisis?” Huffington Post (November 20, 2012).
• “Paul Ryan and the Progressive Psyche,” Huffington Post (August 16, 2012).
• “France’s Hollande Needs a Socialist Hypothesis,” Huffington Post (May 9, 2012).
• “Apple’s Attack on the Knowledge Economy,” Huffington Post (April 30, 2012).

2011
• “Rebuilding Public Universities,” Introduction to special issue of AAUP Academe Blog (November-December 2011).
•“Reflections on the Significance of the Public University: An Interview with Christopher Newfield,” Public Intellectuals Project, MacMaster University (November 2011).
•“Reinventing Public Universities: From Public Deadlock to Bootleg U,” Western Humanities Review LXV:3 (Fall 2011): 6-24. 

• “Devolving Public Universities: Lessons from the American Funding Model,” Radical Philosophy 169 (September /October 2011): 36-42.
• “Public Education for the Public Good,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (28 August 2011), Commentary section.
• “The View from 2020: How Universities Came Back,” AAUP Journal of Academic Freedom 2 (2011).
• “Further Unmaking the Public University,” Introduction to paperback edition of Unmaking the Public University, Harvard University Press website (March, 2011).
• “The Struggle for Public Education in California: Introduction,” South Atlantic Quarterly 110:2 (2011).
• “Structure and Silence of the Cognotariat” (Japanese translation), la revue de la pensée d’aujourd’hui 12 (39:10) (2011): 161-73.

2010
• Review of Steven Shapin, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), Technology and Culture 51 (October 2010): 1058-1060.
• “The End of the American Funding Model: What Comes Next?” American Literature 82:3 (September 2010): 611-635. 
• “American Political Romanticism and the Psychological Impacts of Obama’s Presidency” South Atlantic Quarterly (Autumn 2010).
•“Obama’nın İlk Yılı” (Obama’s First Year), Birkikim (Istanbul, Turkey), May 17, 2010).
• “The Structure and Silence of the Cognotariat”, Globalisation, Societies and Education 8: 2 (Fall 2010).
• “Avoiding the Coming Higher Education Wars,” Academe Blog (May 2010).
• “La fin du modèle de financement américain : comment le remplacer?” L’economie et societé 44.4 (2010).
• “Science Out of the Shadows: Public Nanotechnology and Social Welfare,” “States of Welfare” Issue, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 2 (December 2010).
• “Can the Cognotariat Speak?” e-flux (March 2010) (with Isabelle Bruno).
• “The Structure and Silence of the Cognitariat,” Eurozine (February 2010).
•“Structure and Silence of the Cognotariat,” Edu-Factory (Jan 2010).
• “College Presidents’ Salaries,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (February 3, 2010).
• “The Federal Stimulus Should Support Research at Public Universities,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 3, 2010) (with Gerald Barnett).
• “Is the Corporation a Social Partner? The Case of Nanotechnology,” in Cultural Critique and the Global Corporation, eds. Purnima Bose and Laura E. Lyons (Indiana University Press, 2010).
• “Avoiding Network Failure: the Case of the National Nanotechnology Initiative,” in State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technology Development, eds. Fred Block and Matt Keller (New
York: Paradigm Press, 2010). 
• “Cold Wars and Culture Wars,” in A Companion to American Literature and Culture, ed. Paul Lauter (Blackwell, 2010).

2009
• “Ending the Budget Wars: Funding the Humanities during a Crisis in Higher Education,” Profession MLA (2009).
• “Structure et Silence du Cognitariat,” Multitudes 39 (December 2009).
• “In California, A Teachable Crisis” (the California Budget Crisis), The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 29, 2009), A30.
• “Why Public is Losing to Private in American Research,” Polygraph 21 (October 2009).
• “Ending the California Dream: On Cutting State Funding For Education,” San Francisco Chronicle (July 14, 2009) (with Stanton Glantz).
•“L’Université et la revanche des ‘élites’ aux États-Unis,” La Revue internationale des livres & des idées (Mai-Juin 2009): 28.

2008
• “Can American Studies Do Economics?” review essay, American Quarterly (December 2008).
• “Public Universities at Risk: 7 Damaging Myths,” The Chronicle of Higher Education (October 31, 2008): A128.
• Review of  Emerson and Eros: The Making of a Cultural Hero by Len Gougeon, Emerson Society Papers  19.2 (2008).
• “A Statue Made of Smoke: The Board of Trustees in the New American University” (with Greg Grandin), in The University Against Itself: The NYU Strike and the Future of the University Workplace,  ed. Monika Krause, et al.,  (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008).
• Review of The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History since 1900 by David Edgerton, Nanoscience and Nanosociety, Center for Nanotechnology in Society (January 6, 2008).

2007
• “Corporation,” in Keywords in American Studies, eds. Bruce Burgett and Glenn Hendler (New York: New York University Press, 2007).
• “Passé et passif de l’enseignement supérieur américain,” Le Monde Diplomatique (September 2007).

2006
•“Where’s My Flying Car?” NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society (May 4, 2006).
• “Nano-Punk for Tomorrow’s People,” review of “Tomorrow’s People: the Challenges of Technologies for Life Extension and Enhancement,” conference at the James Martin Institute, Said Business School, University of Oxford (March 2006).
• “The Culture of Force,” South Atlantic Quarterly (Winter 2006): 241-263.

2005
• “75 Years of American Literature,” American Literature 77.2 (June 2005).
• “The Future of the Old Economy: New Deal Motives in New Economy Investors,” in Histories of the Future, eds. Susan Harding and Daniel Rosenberg (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, Spring 2005).
• Review of Ivory Tower and Industrial Innovation by David Mowery, Richard Nelson, Bhaven Sampat, and Arvids Ziedonis, in Enterprise and Society: The International Journal of Business and History 6:2 (June 2005): 348-50.

2004
• “Jurassic U: The State of University-Industry Relations,” Social Text 22:2 (Summer 2004): 51-80.
• “La France Version Américaine,” Liberation, Paris, France, (January 9, 2004).

2003
• “Diversity in the Age of Pseudointegration,” Theories of American Literature, eds. Thomas Claviez and Winfried Fluck (Tubingen, Germany: REAL – Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature 19, 2003), 83-112.
• “The Value of Non-Science,” Critical Inquiry 29.3 (Spring 2003).

2002
• “Democratic Passions: Reconstructing Individual Agency,” in Materializing Democracy: Towards a Revitalized Cultural Politics, eds. Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002).
• “‘Few of our seeds ever came up at all’: A Dialogue on Hawthorne, Delany, and the Work of Affect in Visionary Utopias,” with Melissa Solomon, in No More Separate Spheres, eds. Cathy N. Davidson and Jessamyn Hatcher (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002).
• Review of The Burdens of Intimacy: Psychoanalysis and Victorian Intimacy by Christopher Lane, Victorian Studies 44.2 (Winter 2002): 326-28.
• Review of The California Idea and American Higher Education: 1850 to the 1960 Master Plan by John A. Douglass, American Literature 74.1 (March 2002): 196-98.

1999
• “Middlebrow Reading and the Power of Feeling,” review of A Feeling for Books: The Book-of-the-Month Club, Literary Taste, and Middle-Class Desire by Janice A. Radway, American Quarterly 51.4 (December 1999): 908-918.

1998
• “Corporate Culture Wars,” in Corporate Futures: The Diffusion of the Culturally Sensitive Corporate Form, ed. George Marcus (University of Chicago Press, 1998): 23-62.
• “The Professor-Manager and the Artist-Bureaucrat,” Chicago Humanities Journal 1:1 (1998). Reprinted in Minnesota Review (2000).
• “Whiteness and Meritocracy: An Interview,” Disclosure 7 (1998): 85-99.
• “Criticism and Cultural Knowledge,” Poetics Today 19:3 (Fall 1998): 423-438.

1997
• “Recapturing Academic Business,” Social Text 51 (Summer 1997): 39-66.
• “Corporation H,” Bodies INCorporated, CD-Rom catalogue essay for installation on art and corporate culture, San Francisco Art Institute (1997).
• “White Philosophy” (with Avery Gordon), Critical Inquiry 20 (Summer 1994): 737-757. Reprinted in Cultural and Literary Critiques of the Concepts of “Race,” ed. E. Nathaniel Gates (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997): 149-69.

1996
• “Idealism,” in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley Mott(Greenwood Press, 1996).
• “Not-Me,” in Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley Mott (Greenwood Press, 1996).
• “Guillaume Oegger,” Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley Mott (Greenwood Press, 1996).
• “Sampson Reed,” Biographical Dictionary of Transcendentalism, ed. Wesley Mott (Greenwood Press, 1996).
• “Introduction,” (with Avery Gordon) in Mapping Multiculturalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
• “Multiculturalism’s Unfinished Business,” in Mapping Multiculturalism, eds. Avery Gordon and Christopher Newfield (University of Minnesota Press, 1996).
• “White Philosophy” (with Avery Gordon), Critical Inquiry 20 (Summer 1994): 737-757. Reprinted in Identities, ed. K Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

1995
• “Corporate Pleasures for a Corporate Planet,” Social Text 44 (Fall 1995).
• “Going Public,” (with Ron Strickland) in After Political Correctness: The Humanities and Society in the 1990s, eds. Christopher Newfield and Ronald Strickland (Westview Press, 1995).

1994
• “White Philosophy” (with Avery Gordon), Critical Inquiry 20 (Summer 1994): 737-757. Reprinted 1) Identities, ed. K Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). 2) Cultural and Literary Critiques of the Concepts of “Race,” ed. E. Nathaniel Gates (New York: Garland Publishing, 1997): 149-69.
• “What Was `Political Correctness’?: Race, the Right, and Managerial Democracy in the Humanities” Critical Inquiry 19 (Winter, 1993): 308-36. Revised and reprinted in PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy, ed. Jeffrey Williams (New York: Routledge, 1994): 109-145.

1993
• “Democracy and Male Homoeroticism,” Yale Journal of Criticism 6:2 (Fall 1993): 29-62.
• “What Was `Political Correctness’?: Race, the Right, and Managerial Democracy in the Humanities“ Critical Inquiry 19 (Winter, 1993): 308-36. Revised and reprinted in PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy, ed. Jeffrey Williams (New York: Routledge, 1994): 109-145.

1992
• Review of Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome by Stanley Cavell, Prose Studies 15 (August 1992): 244-47.
•”Controlling the Voice: Emerson’s Early Theory of Language,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance 38:1 (Fall 1992): 1-29.
•”Ignore the Pressure: Academic Freedom and Cultural Dissent,” Mediations 16.2 (May 1992): 33-36.

1991
•”A Teacher for Democratizing Liberalism: A Response to Teachers for a Democratic Culture,” Mediations 16.1 (Fall 1991): 13-15.
• “Emerson’s Corporate Individualism,” American Literary History 3:4 (Winter 1991): 657-84.
• “Loving Bondage: Emerson’s Ideal Relationships,” American Transcendentalist Quarterly 5:3 New Series (September 1991): 183-93.

1989
• “The Politics of Male Suffering: Masochism and Hegemony in The American Renaissance,” differences 1.3 (Winter 1989): 55-87.

1988
• Review of Emerson’s Epistemology: The Argument of the Essays  by David Van Leer, Nineteenth-Century Literature 42 (March 1988): 512-15.