“The End of the English Major”
In The New Yorker, Nathan Heller writes about “The End of the English Major.”
Deresiewicz on leaving academia
A cautionary tale about the academic humanities, from graduate study to the tenure track.
On the crisis in the humanities
Jon Baskin and Anastasia Berg, writing in The New York Times.
Recently updated
Goodbye to all that The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point is rethinking its plan to destroy study in the humanities.
Goodbye to all that
The Washington Post reports on a plan to drop thirteen majors at the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point. The majors in question: American studies, art, English (without teacher-certification), French, geography, geoscience, German, history, music literature, philosophy, political science, sociology, and Spanish.
Branching out
From Father Knows Best: “The successful engineer today also needs to know languages, economics, philosophy, the humanities.”
“How not to write”
Advice for aspirants in the humanities.
“Rich kids” and English
The idea that the humanities are for “rich kids” is one that any humanist must reject.
“In the end, we can’t [?] lose”
The humanities in higher education. I’m less sanguine that Mark Edmundson.
Camille Paglia on academia
"The humanities have destroyed themselves over the past thirty years."