Under the editorial leadership of Ken Wissoker, Duke University Press has become known for its blend of scholarly rigor with conceptual risk-taking, where high and low art boldly intermingle.
” to be depressingly relatable: “‘Cruel optimism’ was Berlant’s way of theorizing why and how people remained attached to fantasies and aspirations of ‘the good life’ . . . ‘Cruel optimism’ was Dorothy’s entire life.”
By e-mail, Hollingshead told me that his tweets are meant to be playful and that, among his academic followers, they tend to elicit “a genuine insider fondness for these tics.” He added, “It’s hard to overstate the press’s salutary effects on academic scholarship today.” Duke has been a leader in taking once marginalized disciplines built around the experiences of marginalization and institutionalizing them. Wissoker’s authors now chair departments and sit on tenure committees.
Cultural studies was a loosely defined school of thought developed by working-class British academics such as Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart, who believed that the culture of the people they grew up with was as legitimate an object of study as Shakespeare or classical music.
In the nineteen-eighties in Chicago, though, Wissoker’s fiefdom was limited to the campus bookstore—the storied Seminary Co-op—in Hyde Park. Wissoker realized that he “could do a sort of intellectual leadership,” curating table displays to spread the gospel of, say, British Marxism or the fifth issue of the journalwhich was devoted to Black lesbian authors. His time as a bookseller also instilled in him the value of cover design.
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