Just Theory

David B. Downing is Distinguished University Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he has been teaching for thirty years. His scholarship over the past two decades has contributed to what many have called Critical University Studies. As editor of the journal Works and Days, his recent special volumes have included, among others, "Information University: Rise of the Education Management Organization" (2003); "Education as Revolution" (2013); "Scholactivism: Reflections on Transforming Praxis Inside and Outside the Classroom" (2016); and "Capitalism, Climate Change, and Rhetoric" (2018). Downing is the author of The Knowledge Contract: Politics and Paradigms in the Academic Workplace (2010) and the editor or coeditor of Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era (2010), Beyond English, Inc.: Curricular Reform in a Global Economy (2002), and several other books.