The focus of research on the globalization of higher education has historically been on universities within the United States. More recently, the focus has shifted to the international scene, yet there remain few published works to document this phenomenon.The American-Style University at Large: Transplants, Outposts, and the Globalization of Higher Education, edited by Kathryn L. Kleypas and James McDougall, is an intervention into current discussions concerning the role of the contemporary American-style university in a global context. The editors approach the subject from their own experiences as professors at an American-style university in the Middle East. They pull together essays from an impressively diverse list of contributors which examine the various ways that American models of higher learning have become instituted around the world. The authors then explore ways that these new configurations help to define the university as a force that organizes, develops, and controls methods of education, knowledge, power, and culture.

Kathryn L. Kleypas andJames McDougall are professors at an American-style university overseas.Contributions by:Mary A Goodwin, Kathryn Kleypas, Eng-Beng Lim, James McDougall, Patrick McGreevy, Walter Mignolo, John W. Mullen, Yulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton, Mary Queen, Andrew Ross, Mark Schaub, Malini Johar Schueller, Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen, Mary Ann Tétreault, Ting Man Tsao

List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, James I. McDougallMapping the American-Style UniversityChapter 1, Globalization and the Geopolitics of Knowledge: The Role of the Humanities in theCorporate University, Walter MignoloChapter 2, American-Style Higher Education and the People of the Middle East, PatrickMcGreevyChapter 3, Soft Power Goes Abroad: The Transplant University as a Western Outpost in theArab Gulf States, Mary Ann TétreaultChapter 4, Out of the Open Admissions Contexts: Transplanting a Clean AmericanCommunity College Model to Postcolonial Hong Kong, Ting Man TsaoChapter 5, The Modern Knowledge Worker in the Global U: An Interview with Andrew Ross,James I. McDougall and Kathryn L. KleypasPerforming the American-Style UniversityChapter 6, Performing the Global University, Eng-Beng LimChapter 7, Notes on Non-Places and the Localization of the Global American-Style University,James I. McDougallChapter 8, Nostalgia, Performance, and Pedagogy in the American-Style University, KathrynL. KleypasChapter 9, Rhetorics of Diversity and Difference: Branding an American-Style University in theArabian Gulf, Mary QueenChapter 10, A Neocolonialist Invader or a Postmodern Exile?: the American-Style University inthe Desert of the Real, Yulia Pushkarevskaya NaughtonDisciplining American Studies and English in the American-Style UniversityChapter 11, The Borders and Limits of American Studies: A Picture from Beirut, Malini JoharSchuellerChapter 12, Beyond These Shores: An Argument for Internationalizing Composition, MarkSchaubChapter 13, Running Dogs and English Gods: New Challenges for Taiwans EnglishDepartments, Mary GoodwinChapter 14, Critical Thinking, Critical Writing in Composition Courses at the AmericanUniversity in Bulgaria, Filitsa Sofianou-Mullen and John W. MullenConclusion, Kathryn L. KleypasIndex