Jacobia Hotel, William H. Johnson, 1930[In the next in our "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series, James Treat, associate professor in Religion, offers a new variation on an old tune.]"Fur-lough, Sweet Chariot": An Academic Work Song(sung call-and-response, to the tune of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot")...

[Each fall the Unit for Criticism provides travel grants to select graduate student affiliates, inviting awardees to publish a post on Kritik about their paper. Below Dan Colson, a grad student affiliate in English, writes about conference paper he delivered in fall 2009.]Teaching in the PanopticonWritten by Dan Colson (English)Last...

[In the next in our "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series, the head of the UIUC English Department considers the budget crisis from departmental and campus perspectives.]"Beyond the F-word"Written by Curtis Perry (Head, English Department)I have read the previous installments in this series with considerable admiration...

[On March 11, the Unit for Criticism and the IPRH hosted a panel on "Visions for the Future of the University of Illinois" featuring presentations by Hadi Esfahani, Peter Fritzsche, Feisal Mohamed, Lisa Rosenthal, Alexander Scheeline, and Ruth Watkins. Below are excerpts from Professor Mohamed's contribution...

[In the next in our "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series, Kate Clancy, assistant professor in Anthropology, considers work in higher education from the perspective of parenting.] "Teach Your Children Well"Written by Kate Clancy (Anthropology)My husband and I are both assistant professors and...

On the left is a photograph of the Old Bridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina[On March 11, the Unit for Criticism and the IPRH hosted a panel on "Visions for the Future of the University of Illinois" featuring presentations by Hadi Esfahani, Peter Fritzsche, Feisal Mohamed, Lisa Rosenthal, Alexander Scheeline, and Ruth Watkins. Below are...

[The last in our series of posts from the Unit's 2/19 symposium, MADWORLD: Sex, Politics, Style, and the1960s, describes a panel that featured papers by Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing, and Diane P. Koenker.]“Looking at Gender,...

[The next in our "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series on higher education is contributed by guest writer Roxie, whose Roxie's World blog has provided keen and humorous perspectives on academia for four years and who joins us from a state now facing the possibility of a third year of furloughs for state employees.]Written by Roxie...

[The next in our series of posts from last month's symposium, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style and...

[The next in our "15 Ways to Take Your Furlough/Voluntary Pay Cut" series on higher education is contributed by Joyce Tolliver, associate professor of Spanish and Gender & Women's Studies as well as Chair of the Faculty Senate Executive Committee]Written by Joyce Tolliver (Spanish/GWS, Chair of the Faculty Senate...

[The next in our series of blog posts from the Unit's 2/19 symposium, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s, describes the first panel which featured papers by Clarence Lang, Leslie Reagan, and Alexander Doty.]Written by Ana...

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[The next in our series of blog posts from the Unit's 2/19 symposium, MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s, is a response to Lynne Joyrich's afternoon keynote lecture, "Media Madness: Multiple Identity Disorder in...

[On February 19, 2010, the Unit for Criticism's hosted a winter symposium called MAD WORLD: Sex, Politics, Style and the 1960s. Over the next couple of weeks we will publish a series of guest posts on Kritik covering specific...

Above left: Alexander Doty links homosexualityon Mad Men to Sex and the Single Girl (1962); Above right: Pat Gill moderates the first panel sporting a vintage dress worn by her mother in the 1960s.Photos from the MAD WORLD symposium, February 19, 2010...