Contents
Editorial
ANA-KARINA SCHNEIDER 3
Whither Teaching in the University Novel?
ELIZABETH K. SWITAJ 15
“I’m a I’m a Scholar at the Moment”: The Voice of the Literary Critic in the Works of American Scholar-Metafictionists
WOJCIECH DRĄG 36
“C’est la vie, c’est la narration”: The Reader in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Textermination and David Lodge’s Small World
CORINA SELEJAN 52
Female Researchers in Neo-Victorian Fiction
TAMMY HO LAI-MING 72
“Cash Is Better than Tenure”: (De)Constructing the “Posthistorical University” in James Hynes’s Gothic Academic Satire The Lecturer’s Tale
RALUCA ANDREESCU 87
In Pursuit of Happiness: Escape, Change, and Return in Contemporary Academic Novels, Or Why I Read Campus Novels, But Possibly Shouldn’t
MARTA ŁYSIK 109
An Interview with Alex Kudera, Author of Fight for Your Long Day
MERRITT MOSELEY 123
An Interview with Lucian Bâgiu, Author of Bestiary: Oriental
Salad with Peacock/Imaginary Academics CORINA SELEJAN 132
Bestiary: Oriental Salad with Peacock/Imaginary Academics – Fragment –
LUCIAN BÂGIU 142
Some Considerations about Why I Wrote an Academic Novel
MAX BESORA 147
The Marvelous Technique: A Campus Novel – Fragment –
MAX BESORA 150
Book Reviews
Higher Ed MERRITT MOSELEY 164
Affordable Housing in New York. The People, Places and Policies that Transformed a City RALUCA MOLDOVAN 171