A Force of Nature Takes Over at the AAUP

by Robin Wilson and Scott McLemee

June 11, 2004

The Chronicle of Higher Education

A COMPOSITION OF TWO: In hiring Gary A. Olson, 49, an English professor at the University of South Florida, the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University isn't just getting a new dean. Mr. Olson, who joins Illinois State on July 1, is one of the leading figures involved in building connections between cultural studies and composition. For the past 10 years, he has been editor emeritus of JAC: A Journal of Composition Theory -- a publication known for its interviews with such prominent thinkers in the humanities as Homi Bhabha, Jacques Derrida, Clifford Geertz, bell hooks, and Richard Rorty.

 

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