CONTENTS

From the Editor

ARTICLES

The Stupidity Crisis
ROBERT PATTISON

A Redevelopment Commission for Academe
DONALD M. FRIEDMAN

Individual Career versus Professional Lockstep: Problems of the Faculty RewardSystem
LEO BRAUDY

The Rookie-of-the-Year Syndrome
MARY BURGAN

Pop, Goes the Canon
ELIZABETH LANGLAND

When the Chair Is a Woman: Some Thoughts on Difference
MARCIA A. DALBEY

Nourishing and Maintaining the Very Small English Department in Nebraska
EVELYN HALLER

SPECIAL SECTION

Responses to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English

PAUL HERNADI

DON H. BIALOSTOSKY

PETER CROW

SUSAN BELASCO SMITH

SYLVIA A. HOLLADAY

MELVYN NEW

P. DONALD HERRING

JOAN E. HARTMAN

BOOK REVIEW

Professing Literature: An Institutional Historyby Gerald Graff
CHARLES ALTIERI

CRITICAL RESPONSE

STEPHEN M. NORTH

DANIEL J. VOIKU