Academe Degree Zero brings together ten essays that identify and critically examine the key issues facing professionals in higher education today

Chapter 1 Anonymity, Dialogue, and the Academy; Chapter 2 Public Intellectuals, Inc.; Chapter 3 Uncollegiality, Tenure, and the Weasel Clause; Chapter 4 Shame in Academe; Chapter 5 On Being and Becoming Affiliated; Chapter 6 The Fate of the Book Review; Chapter 7 Politics, Pedagogy, and the Anthology (an exchange with Gerald Graff); Chapter 8 Academe Degree Zero; Chapter 9 Cultural Studies, Semiotics, and the Politics of Repackaging Theory; Chapter 10 New Technology and the Dilemmas of the Posttheory Generation;