ABSTRACT

In “The Risk of Tolerance: Feminist Killjoys, the Creative Humanities, and the Belligerent University,” Karen Redrobe considers what risks the university faces when some of its recent darlings, including innovation, integration, resilience, militarization, and monetizable research/creative work, begin to determine the university’s course. Redrobe considers how these terms relate to each other, how they impact the humanities, and how we decide what is tolerable or intolerable within the university context. What are our responsibilities as humanists when we encounter the intolerable, what risks (if any) do we face when we act at such moments, and how might feminism and our humanistic tools inform our responses?