Social epistemology and English studies education -- Institutionalized romantic humanism and the modern student of literature -- From romantic humanist to postmodern pedagogy: how the alien becomes normative in contemporary education -- Postmodern identity politics vs. the romanticized autonomous student -- Postmodern pedagogy vs. the vocationalization of education -- Critical theory, pedagogy, and the postmodern student of English: dialogic critical pedagogy as intervention and liberation -- Taking a dialogic critical pedagogy into the classroom: the story of an evolving pedagogy -- Conclusion.