Profitable Humanities: Too Good to be True?
At first, I was entranced by a piece in UCLA Today about the extent to which departments in the hard sciences do or do not subsidize humanities departments. In it, Robert Watson, a professor of English...
View ArticleProfitable Humanities, Cont.
Since it came up in a discussion of my previous post (and in the comments there), here’s my position on the bigger question (that is, should we be measuring the worth of the English department [or...
View ArticleWhat AWP Stands For
I’ve had a great time so far at AWP 2011, but I do want to mention having noticed a widespread and foolish presumption that if you’re not teaching or in an academic program, you’re probably not a good...
View ArticleShowing Students the Money: A Pragmatic Defense of the Humanities Education
Buried in Lauren Russell’s article for CNN on the increasingly “career-driven” college student lies a glimmer of hope for the humanities education: Although “[b]usiness and technical majors fared...
View ArticleHow not to Email a Professor: A Lesson on Audience
Professor Michael Leddy’s “How to email a professor” is making the rounds on Facebook for the third time in as many years. While there’s much good advice in there, there’s also advice that seems useful...
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