Global Academe : Engaging Intellectual Discourse

Nagy-Zekmi and Hollis address the representation of the economic, political, and cultural interrelations between agents involved in the process of intellectual activity. They also analyze the transformation in intellectual production and the changing role of academics themselves, while reviewing the transition from an objectivist, historical standpoint to imaginative constructs based on cultural relativism. Examples of past and current attitudes of intellectuals are thus analyzed from a transnational perspective by focusing on the exchange of ideologies, the practices of state-power, democracy, and anti-democracy, up to the public deliberations surrounding such issues as the "war on terror."

SILVIA NAGY-ZEKMI Professor of Hispanic and Cultural Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Director of the Cultural Studies Program at Villanova University, USA, who has been teaching courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels on Latin American and Middle Eastern/North African Literature and literary and cultural theory. KARYN HOLLIS Professor in the English Department at Villanova University where she directs the Concentration in Writing and Rhetoric and teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate level.