[pt. 1]. Understanding language
Language, culture, and society / Doris Sommer
Linguistics / Paul J. Hopper
Language acquisition and language learning / Heidi Byrnes
Rhetoric / Susan C. Jarratt
Composition / David Bartholomae
Poetics / Charles Bernstein
[pt. 3]. Reading literature and culture
Textual scholarship / Leah S. Marcus
Interpretation / Jerome McGann
Historical scholarship / Catherine Gallagher
Comparative literature / J. Michael Holquist
Cultural studies / Jean Franco
Feminisms, genders, sexualities / Anne Donadey with Françoise Lionnet
Race and ethnicity / Kenneth W. Warren
Migrations, diasporas, and borders / Susan Stanford Friedman
Translation studies / Lawrence Venuti
Epilogue : The scholar in society / Bruce Robbins
