The End?

2006

The End of the Campus Novel?

2011

Still the End of the Campus Novel?

2013 – The Guardian

Last rites for the campus novel by John Dugdale

“Though currently very much on-trend, the campus novel is now approaching retirement age.”

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/apr/01/last-rites-campus-novel

“The Rise of the Academic Novel” – the 2012 seminal article

“The academic novel is usually considered a quaint genre, depicting the insular world of academe and directed toward a coterie audience. But it has become a major genre in contemporary American fiction and glimpses an important dimension of American life.”

October 17th, 2012 – Oxford University Press’ Blog

The Rise of the Academic Novel by Jeffrey J. Williams

(An excerpt from “The Rise of the Academic Novel.” American Literary History. Vol. 24, No. 3. 2012. 561-589.)

The rise of the academic novel

Black Academic Fiction

I have recently stumbled upon a blog whose author wrote a dissertation titled The Over-Education of the Negro: Higher Education, Academic Novels, and the Black Intellectual. His blogging and some posts are of interest:

– On black academic fiction (bibliography)

– On academic criticism (bibliography)

– On academic films:

The University on Screen: The Top 10 Academic Films

10 More Academic Films

– On individual novels:

Academic Novel: Imperium in Imperio

Pym

Japanese by Spring

Stoner by John Williams