CONTENTS

From the Editor

ARTICLES

Reading as Was Never Read
JOHN SIMPSON

Teaching English: What and Where Is the Cutting Edge?
DAVID SIMPSON

The Albany Graduate English Curriculum
C. H. KNOBLAUCH

Writing across the Curriculum: The Vantage of the Liberal Arts
JANE HEDLEY and JO ELLEN PARKER

Shallow Roots or Taproots for Writing across the Curriculum?
EDWARD M. WHITE

Writing across the Curriculum and the Future of Freshman English:
A Dialogue between Literature and Composition
PESHE C. KURILOFF

Two Careers, One Relationship: An Interim Report on “Spousal” Hiring and Retention in English Departments
MARY BURGAN, GEORGE BUTTE, KAREN HOUCK, and DAVID LAURENCE

REVIEW ESSAY

Knowing, Believing, Doing: Or, How Can We Study Literature and Why Should We Anyway?
Doing What Comes Naturally by Stanley Fish, Literary Knowledge by Paisley Livingston, and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty
MICHAEL SPRINKER

BOOK REVIEW

The Vocation of a Teacher by Wayne C. Booth
HOMER GOLDBERG