The Issue at a Glance

Tracking Tenure by U-Haul (10.1007/s12129-014-9431-6)

John M. Gist, Western New Mexico University

John M. Gist has spent most of his academic career on the move, “escaping,” as he describes it, “from tenure”—haunted by an “unsupervised” reading of Nietzsche that caused him to drop out of high school and later enroll in college “to plumb the depths of German philosophy.” Gist reflects on his academic journey from the vantage point of having made peace with himself and his role as tenured professor.

Acknowledging Things of Darkness: Postcolonial Criticism ofThe Tempest (10.1007/s12129-014-9433-4)

Duke Pesta, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

Postcolonial criticism has become a dominant voice in literary studies over the past forty years, and few works have been as “assigned, deconstructed, interdisciplinized, revisioned, trivialized, and ventriloquized” as Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which, together with the character Caliban,