From Upton Sinclair's 'Goose Step' to the Neoliberal University

Daniel Morris is the author of seven books on twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry and visual culture, editor or co-editor of five essay collections, and author of four books of poetry. Recent titles include Not Born Digital (Bloomsbury), Blue Poles (Marsh Hawk Press), a paperback reissue of his study of Nobel Laureate Louise Glück (University of Missouri Press), and, as editor, The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry and Politics since 1900. He is a professor of English at Purdue University, where he has taught since 1994. Harry Targ taught United States foreign policy, US/Latin American relations, international political economy, and topics on labor studies in the Department of Political Science and a program in Peace Studies, both at Purdue University. He retired in 2019. He sees connections between theory/education and political practice. Consequently, he has been a political activist, co-chair of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), and a member of the Purdue chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). Formerly he was a member of the Northwest Central Labor Council (AFL-CIO) and the Lafayette Area Peace Coalition (LAPC). He has published ten books, including Diary of a Heartland Radical, available at Changemaker. He blogs at www.heartlandradical.blogspot.com.