Sarah Brouillette is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University. She has an abiding interest in the economic and political circumstances that underpin and influence the production, circulation and reception of contemporary literature and culture. She recently wrote an article for nonsite.org, “Academic Labour, the Aesthetics of Management, and the Promise of Autonomous Work,” and has two monographs Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007) and Literature and the Creative Economy (2014). She is also beginning research for a sort of cultural history of neoliberalism, which will use Unesco (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) as its core case. This talk recorded and posted to itunesU as an in-kind contribution to the MLG 2014 Institute on Culture and Society.