Today, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Michael Bérubé considers the structural disconnect between PhD training in the humanities and the academic job market. “Graduate programs in the humanities,” he writes, “have been designed precisely to replenish the ranks of the professoriate; that is why they have such […]
The Department of English in the College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan invites applications for a four-year appointment in Aboriginal literatures and storytelling in Canada at the Assistant Professor level, to begin July 1, 2013. The successful candidate will teach existing classes in the area of […]
Assistant Professor: Indigenous Literatures and Storytelling in Canada The Department of English in the College of Arts & Science, University of Saskatchewan invites applications for a four-year appointment in Aboriginal literatures and storytelling in Canada at the Assistant Professor level, to begin July 1, 2013. The successful candidate […]
Here’s the blurb for English Professor Ajay Heble’s public lecture at McMaster University, January 24th, 2013. As a teacher of literature, I’m often called upon to account for what I do: just why do I “profess” literature, why does a study of literary texts matter? In this talk, […]
We all have our histories for “The Department of English,” and mine pre-dates that of Georgia Institute of Technology’s Richard Utz. Utz thinks English as a formal discipline of study begins in mid-nineteenth-century continental Europe. I am persuaded by Gauri Viswanathan’s finding, in Masks of Conquest, that English Studies […]
