Child's ballads: narrating histories of composition and literary studies / Patricia Harkin -- Institutionalizing English: rhetoric on the boundaries / David R. Russell -- A short history of a border war: social science, school reform, and the study of literature / Elizabeth A. Wilson -- Period making and the discipline: a genealogy of the idea of the Renaissance in ELH / Craig Dionne -- Emerson and the shape of American literature / David R. Shumway -- The posttheory generation / Jeffrey J. Williams -- Composing literary studies in graduate courses / John Schilb -- Inventing gender: creative writing and critical agency / Milly Hite -- Profiting pedants: symbolic capital, text editing, and cultural reproduction / Laurie A. Finke and Martin B. Shichtman -- A new kind of work: publishing, theory, and cultural studies / Ronald Schleifer -- What hath English wrought: the corporate university's fast food discipline / Cary Nelson