Front -- Contents -- Introduction: Criticism without Footnotes -- How to Be an Intellectual: Rorty v. Ross -- The Retrospective Tenor of Recent Theory -- The Rise of the Theory Journal -- How Critics Became Smart -- Publicist Intellectuals -- The Ubiquity of Culture -- Credibility and Criticism: On Walter Benn Michaels -- The Statistical Turn in Literary Criticism -- Prodigal Critics: Bloom, Fish, and Greenblatt -- A Life in Criticism: M. H. Abrams -- Bellwether: J. Hillis Miller -- The Political Theory License: Michael Walzer -- The Critic as Wanderer: Terry Eagleton -- From Cyborgs to Animals: Donna Haraway -- Intellectuals and Politics: Stefan Collini -- The Editor as Broker: Gordon Hutner -- Gaga Feminism: Judith "Jack" Halberstam -- Book Angst -- The Pedagogy of Debt -- Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture -- The Academic Devolution -- The Neoliberal Bias of Higher Education -- The University on Film -- The Thrill Is Gone -- Unlucky Jim -- Academic Opportunities Unlimited -- The Pedagogy of Prison -- Shelf Life -- Teacher: Remembering Michael Sprinker -- My Life as Editor -- Other People's Words -- Long Island Intellectual.