"…the university is perceived to be a site for the contestation as well as for the reproduction of ideological dominants; that there is something immediately important at stake in our reading and teaching of Shakespeare; and that, if we suddenly discover ourselves to be not marginal but rather in positions of cultural and institutional power, we are also now compelled to choose if, when and how to employ that power…If we bring to our students and to ourselves a sense of our own historicity, an apprehension of our positionings within ideology, then we are at the same time demonstrating the limited but nevertheless tangible possibility of contesting the regime of power and knowledge that at once sustains us and constrains us."

Louis A. Montrose, from “Professing the Renaissance: The Poetics and Politics of Culture” (via cfbwe)