Inside Higher Ed :: 'Faculty Towers'

Want to expand your academic novel collection? Here's an interview with the author of "Faculty Tower". By the way, which acadmic novel is your favorite?
Inside Higher Ed :: 'Faculty Towers':

Elaine Showalter opens her new book on the academic novel by noting the theory that the novel generally took off because people wanted to read about people like themselves. So it’s not surprising that Showalter, an emeritus professor of English at Princeton University, would consider the academic novel her favorite literary genre.

In Faculty Towers: The Academic Novel and Its Discontents, published this spring by the University of Pennsylvania Press, she reviews the genre, which first appeared in significant form in the 50s and has thrived ever since. Showalter answered some questions from Inside Higher Ed about her new book and the state of academic fiction: