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Dec 13, 2021
How a dispute over pandemic-era funding for graduate education is putting the entire department’s future at risk.
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Views • March 24, 2023
Parroting romanticized myths about English and humanities (letter)
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Reflecting on "The End of the English Major" (opinion)
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Reflections on the state of Chaucer studies (opinion)
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March 9, 2023
As the four horsemen continue their approach, English departments’ offer is as important (if not more so) as ever, Andrew Newman writes.
October 27, 2022
As Chaucer studies grapples with one of the most widely noted discoveries in the field in years, Richard Utz wonders, will it do to say anything more about Chaucer?
October 17, 2022
A focus on improving students’ critical reading skills, while essential, is missing from many conversations about student success, Alice S. Horning writes.
September 19, 2022
Harper Lee’s novel belongs on college-level syllabi for the very reasons it’s rightfully losing favor in secondary school curricula, Andrew Newman writes.
May 7, 2022
More evidence of what's wrong with the current state of the humanities.
April 15, 2022
Lucinda Coulter writes that future engineers and scientists need a robust English department, too.
March 31, 2022
Correcting the record on assertions about the end of the Western civilization requirement at Stanford.
March 21, 2022
The curricular retreat away from canonical works and grand narratives has helped dampen student interest in the humanities, Mark Bauerlein writes.
March 11, 2022
David Galef offers a satirical proposal on ways to make the English major more viable.