Alma Mater

Authors

Rebecca M. Herzig, Bates CollegeFollow

Publication Title

Boundary 2

Document Type

Article

Department or Program

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Publication Date

2022

Keywords

COVID-19, higher education, Norman O. Brown, sacrifice, abolitionist university studies

Abstract

Placing the neoliberal academy's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic alongside Norman O. Brown's May 1960 Phi Beta Kappa speech, “Apocalypse: The Place of Mystery in the Life of the Mind,” this essay considers the place of madness, sacrifice, and monstrous motherhood in approaches to the university.

Comments

Original version is available from the publisher at: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9789766

Recommended Citation

Herzig, R. M. (2022). Alma Mater. Boundary 2, 49(3), 133–145.