Description: How can we use humanistic resources to create new collaborative texts that address nationally significant goals while working in local, quotidian settings? Panelists discuss journalism and the power of the new public intellectuals; program building and community-based research and teaching in the belly of the beast; creating a pathway for diversifying the academy through an African American literature summer program; the literature seminar at work; and how to make the revolution irresistible through university- and community-based cultural work.

Presider

Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Texas Christian U

Speakers

Max Krochmal, Texas Christian U

Lisa Yun Lee, U of Illinois, Chicago

Jane Greenway Carr, CNN Digital

Ann Kowal Smith, Books@Work