Notes that editors regulate and order knowledge, style and discourse; yet editors should have the daring to give unexpected texts and knowledge to the world. Argues that scholars must find a way to address the practical question of how contributors to scholarly publications induce editors into crises acute enough to make publication interesting.…

In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, argues that English departments should not become service departments for other academic departments. Urges the replacement of adjunct faculty members with tenure-earning assistant professor lines and claims that recognition through publication serves the…

Discusses the lack of communication and the need for a community of scholarship among literary critics and rhetoric theorists. (SRT)