From the website: "This microsyllabus eschews some of the more canonical texts in the burgeoning field of critical university studies – texts like Marc Bousquet’s How the University Works (NYU Press, 2008) or the growing roster of publications in John Hopkins University Press’s Critical University Studies book series – in favor of more heterodox selections. We think the texts below point the way to new and more radical directions for future research and scholarship on universities which directly problematize race, gender, and coloniality in addition to the emphasis in older work on the casualization of academic labor and the effects of financialization and state disinvestment. By revealing such deeply rooted structures of domination and oppression in academia and by exploring these structures’ complex intersections, they push beyond a tendency in university studies (“critical” or otherwise) to romanticize certain academic ideals, such as the academic vocation, the public university, and academic freedom. Our microsyllabus compiles research on universities from multiple and disparate disciplinary formations. We believe that, together, these texts suggest the arc of recent critical inquiries into universities’ history and organization as well as multiple possible ways forward."