Language and composition. Linguistics / Edward Finegan -- Language, culture, and society / Dennis Baron -- Language acquisition and language learning / Claire J. Kramsch -- Rhetoric and composition / Andrea A. Lunsford -- Literary studies : text, interpretation, history, theory. Textual scholarship / D.C. Greetham -- Canonicity and textuality / Robert Scholes -- Literary interpretation / Donald G. Marshall -- Historical scholarship / Annabel Patterson -- Literary theory / Jonathan Culler -- Cross-disciplinary and cultural studies. Interdisciplinary studies / Giles Gunn -- Feminist and gender studies / Naomi Schor -- "Ethnic and minority" studies / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- "Border" studies : the intersection of gender and color / Paula Gunn Allen -- Cultural studies / David Bathrick -- Epilogue. The scholar in society / Gerald Graff