Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

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Simone Pfleger Carrie Smith

Transverse Disciplines

Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

Simone Pfleger, Carrie Smith

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University of Toronto Press
16 November 2022

Language: reference & general; Literature: history & criticism; Literary theory; Philosophy & theory of education; Higher & further education, tertiary education

For at least a decade, university foreign language programs have been in decline throughout the English-speaking world. As programs close or are merged into large multi-language departments, disciplines such as German studies find themselves struggling to survive.

Transverse Disciplines offers an overview of the current research on the humanities and the academy at large and proposes creative and courageous ideas for the university of the future. Using German studies as a case study, the book examines localized academic work in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States in order to model new ideas for invigorated thinking beyond disciplinary specificity, university communities, and entrenched academic practices. In essays that are theoretical, speculative, experimental, and deeply personal, contributors suggest that German studies might do better to stop trying to protect existing national and disciplinary arrangements. Instead, the discipline should embrace feminist, queer, anti-racist, and decolonial academic practices and commitments, including community-based work, research-creation, and scholar activism.

Interrogating the position of researchers, teachers, and administrators inside and outside academia, Transverse Disciplines takes stock of the increasingly tenuous position of the humanities and stakes a claim for the importance of imagining new disciplinary futures within the often restrictive and harmful structures of the academy.

Edited by: Simone Pfleger, Carrie Smith
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 159mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 700g
ISBN: 9781487508456
ISBN 10: 148750845X
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 16 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simone Pfleger is an assistant professor of Gender Studies and German Studies at the University of Alberta. Carrie Smith is the vice dean of the Faculty of Arts and a professor of German Studies at the University of Alberta.

Reviews for Transverse Disciplines: Queer-Feminist, Anti-racist, and Decolonial Approaches to the University

Transverse Disciplines has a wonderful spirit of shared purpose. Each contribution in this collection is frank, fierce, courageous, and revealing. The blend of public research, activist approaches, methodological meditations, and experimental epistemologies makes this a perfect introductory book for graduate students. Black, Indigenous, decolonial, and feminist interventions are well represented, timely, and substantive. The knowledge-making and -sharing is fresh, compassionate, humane, and radical. What a triumph. - David Gramling, Professor of German Studies, University of British Columbia An important contribution to the field, Transverse Disciplines poses exactly the right questions about the future of German studies. The essays in this collection model the kinds of innovative teaching and research that are really going to be important in the coming years. This book will be of interest to professors of German studies, both advanced scholars who want to learn how the discipline is changing, as well as junior professors who are contributing to these changes. It will be a priceless resource for graduate students who are learning how to navigate the field and trying to determine what possible contribution they could make. - Priscilla Layne, Associate Professor of German and Adjunct Assistant Professor of African and Afro-American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill