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As editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature, Dutton ran the Bad Writing Contest, which aimed to " expose ' pretentious, swaggering gibberish ' passed off as scholarship at leading universities.

" In 1995, the contest was won by Homi K. Bhabha and Fredric Jameson.

In 1998, the contest awarded first place to University of California-Berkeley Professor Judith Butler, for a sentence which appeared in the journal diacritics . Butler defended her work against the charges of academic pedantry and obscurantism in the pages of the New York Times.

Dutton then ended the contest.