An Invitation to S.U. Faculty

The Alternative Orange, as an oppositional publication, recognizes its political function to be one of contestatory engagement with the dominant theoretics/experiences that inform the hegemony of academic/cultural (post)modernism. As such it understands its position within the bourgeois academy as constituting a forum for critical engagement with both the conservative theories of the liberal Right and the “progressive” theories of the broad Left: as being a crucial site for the possibility of countering institutional tactics to limit intellectual production (and hence contestation) to the privatized space of the classroom whereby the logic of the ideological (re)production of the labor force can proceed within the policed limits of objectivist, relativist, instrumentalist and formalist pedagogical ethics/etiquette. Hence we formally invite critical engagement from all faculty at S.U. in an attempt to resist this rationalization of knowledge production—and particularly extend this invitation to faculty theorists representing the broad Left who we recognize as being necessarily committed to political and theoretical engagement and struggle with the problematics presented, formulated and contested in this month’s issue. In a decisive political gesture thereby we request the following faculty to theorize their politics in this public space:

• Linda Alcoff (PHIL)

• Beverly Allen (F. LANG/LIT)

• Dympna Callaghan (ETS/ENG)

• Rosaria Champagne (ETS/ENG)

• James Comas (WRT)

• Marvin Druger (BIO/SCI ED)

• Susan Edmunds (ETS/ENG)

• Sharon Gold (STUDIO ARTS)

• Safiya Henderson-Holmes (ETS/ENG)

• Michael Martone (ETS/ENG)

• Donald Morton (ETS/ENG)

• John Nagel (POL SCI)

• Mark Rupert (POL SCI)

• Mas’ud Zavarzadeh* (ETS/ENG)

• James Zebrowski (WRT)

* indicates that we have received a response.