About

Frank J. Donoghue is a Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University. He specializes in the study of the history, present, and future of higher education in the United States. His particular area of interest concerns the fate of the humanities in the university of the future. Donoghue has given lectures on these subjects across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. He currently teaches primarily late nineteenth-century American literature and composition. His academic background includes a PhD from The Johns Hopkins University obtained in 1986 and a BA from Brandeis University in 1980. Among his key contributions is his work on the book 'The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities,' published in 2008. His research and writings focus on the history of higher education, academic freedom, and the evolving role of the humanities in contemporary universities.

Research topics

• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Philosophy
• Humanities
• Linguistics
• Art
• Aesthetics
• Psychology

Selected publications

• The Last Professors

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020 · 1 citations

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  • Computer Science
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• 1. Rhetoric, History, and the Problems of the Humanities

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020

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  • Humanities
  • Sociology
  • Humanities
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• 5. Prestige and Prestige Envy

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2020

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  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Aesthetics
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• The Last Professors

  Fordham University Press eBooks · 2018-01-30 · 14 citations

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• Academic freedom, the ‘teacher exception’, and the diminished professor

  Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics · 2015-07-22 · 2 citations

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  This essay seeks to place the subject of academic freedom in the larger context of the management of the contemporary university. It does so first by reviewing the legal history of academic freedom, a narrative that reveals its steady erosion over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The second section of the essay explores incursions by university administrators into the ownership of teaching materials. Though it was long taken for granted that instructors owned the content of the courses they taught, the transformation of pedagogy through technology has changed that, as administrators can now monitor, control and indeed commodify the courses they offer. Taken together, the legal redefinition of academic freedom and the erosion of what used to be called the ‘teacher exception’ to the work-for-hire rule have turned universities into more manageable workplaces and university instructors into ordinary workers.

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• Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States

  American Literature · 2015-05-28

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  Book Review| June 01 2015 Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship. By Anesko, Michael. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press. 2012. xvi, 248 pp.$35.00.Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States. By Blair, Amy L.. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press. 2012. ix, 250 pp. Cloth, $79.50; paper, $29.95. Frank Donoghue Frank Donoghue Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 394–396. https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886211 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Frank Donoghue; Monopolizing the Master: Henry James and the Politics of Literary Scholarship Reading Up: Middle-Class Readers and the Culture of Success in the Early Twentieth-Century United States. American Literature 1 June 2015; 87 (2): 394–396. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886211 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsAmerican Literature Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 by Duke University Press2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.

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• Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars?

  Vanderbilt University Press eBooks · 2014-01-15 · 3 citations

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• ¿TIENEN FUTURO LAS HUMANIDADES?

  Revista chilena de literatura · 2013-09-01 · 1 citations

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  Hace más de una década tuve una conversación con mi médico de cabecera sobre el libro de Bill Readings The University in Ruins. Reproduje el argumento del libro y recibí una respuesta sorprendente. “La universidad está en buena forma”, me dijo mi doctor. Se explayó diciendo que su puesto como miembro de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Estatal de Ohio le proporcionaba flexibilidad horaria y un buen sueldo, su práctica privada lo complementaba y, más importante aún, sus estudios sobre la hipertensión, patrocinados por el gigante farmacéutico Pfizer, eran muy lucrativos.

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• Writers Talk Featuring The Front Bottoms & Frank Donoghue

  The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University) · 2012-04-09

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  The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/cstw12/04-09-12_TheFrontBottoms_FrankDonoghue.mp3

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• Wo viel Licht ist, ist auch viel Schatten

  2010-12-31 · 3 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Sheíla Delany

  Simon Fraser University

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• Susan K. Harris

  University of Kansas

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• Zeynep Tenger

  Berry College

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• Stanley Fish

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