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ns 71-72 | Winter/Spring 2009
 Our precarious times seem a good moment for critics to think about what they believe and why they do criticism. The new issue of minnesota review features nineteen essays by young, old, and in-between critics about what they do and where they think criticism should go.
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Please note that the minnesota review will not be reading creative writing
submissions (poetry, fiction, nonfiction) from September 1, 2009, to
December 1, 2009, because the journal is moving to a new institutional
home. As of 1 September, please send all new submissions of or inquiries
about articles, reviews, and other critical work to the incoming editor,
Janell Watson, at submissions@theminnesotareview.org. All other
correspondence may continue to be directed to
editors@theminnesotareview.org.
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Issue 51-54
Check out Works and Days' special issue, "Academic Freedom and Intellectual Activism in the Post-9/11 University."
Works and Days provides a scholarly forum for the exploration of problems in cultural studies, pedagogy, and institutional critique, especially as they are impacted by the transition from print to electronic environments.
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by Jeffrey J. Williams | ns 71-72
Hillis Miller has been a bellwether of academic literary criticism for the past fifty years. Trained at Harvard when it was a bastion of the old historicism, he staked out the newer criticism, drawing especially on Kenneth Burke. In his first job at Johns Hopkins University, he came to embrace the phenomenological criticism inspired by Georges Poulet, writing several books that try to capture the consciousness of a writer and his or her work. Already conversant in Continental thought, he shifted allegiances to deconstructive criticism by the early 1970s, inspired by colleagues Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida. Over the past two decades, he has widened his concerns to ethics, the fate of humanistic education, and the new, digital technologies, especially drawing on the later Derrida.
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