Ann Wordsworth, Critical Theory, Faculty Contingency and the University in Ruins

Bill readings was in the process of making final revisions to this book when he died in the crash of American Eagle flight 4184 on October 31, 1994. [...] To insist on talk as a part of the very fabric of this book is perhaps a step toward acknowledging the singularity of a voice, a place, and a time which would not exist apart from the University</p>

-- Diane Elam, 'Foreword' in Readings, Bill. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. vii. My emphasis.

I have forborne to name the individuals who have influenced this book [...]. I will, however, take the risk of mentioning by name the person who first made me aware that the University could be a place to think: Ann Wordsworth. She taught me about something that Oxford called "Critical Theory" and she did so on a short-term contract, teaching in a hut in the garden of one of the brick mansions of North Oxford. I dedicate this book to her.

-- Readings, Bill. 1996. The University in Ruins. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p. x. My emphasis.

Ann taught in a long wooden shed attached to a house in Crick Road, an environment that seemed steeped in radical thought.

-- Jackie Hall, Obituary

What better place than here, what better time than now?

Ann Wordsworth, Critical Theory, Faculty Contingency and the University in Ruins was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on June 04, 2014.