List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction, James I. McDougall
Mapping the American-Style University
Chapter 1, “Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in the
Corporate University,” Walter Mignolo
Chapter 2, “American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East,” Patrick
McGreevy
Chapter 3, “Soft Power Goes Abroad: The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in the
Arab Gulf States,” Mary Ann Tétreault
Chapter 4, “Out of the Open Admissions Contexts: Transplanting a “Clean” American
Community College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong,” Ting Man Tsao
Chapter 5, “The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U: An Interview with Andrew Ross,”
James I. McDougall and Kathryn L. Kleypas
Performing the American-Style University
Chapter 6, “Performing the Global University,” Eng-Beng Lim
Chapter 7, “Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University,”
James I. McDougall
Chapter 8, “Nostalgia, Performance, and Pedagogy in the American-Style University,” Kathryn
L. Kleypas
Chapter 9, “Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference: Branding an American-Style University in the
Arabian Gulf,” Mary Queen
Chapter 10, “A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile?: the American-Style University in
the ‘Desert of the Real,’” Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton

Disciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style University
Chapter 11, “The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut,” Malini Johar
Schueller
Chapter 12, “Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition,” Mark
Schaub
Chapter 13, “Running Dogs and English Gods: New Challenges for Taiwan’s English
Departments,” Mary Goodwin
Chapter 14, “Critical Thinking, Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the American
University in Bulgaria,” Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen and John W. Mullen
Conclusion, Kathryn L. Kleypas
Index