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To: Poet who wrote (3193)	3/17/2002 9:00:08 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) of 21057

Interesting article on the rift in Columbia University's English Department I must say that I had never before given a thought to the organization and staffing of university English departments. Never. Having read the Times article, I feel like I'm in the twilight zone and I'm not at all sure what the fight is about. I had just assumed that literature was clumped by format and period and that the various clumps were studied more for their style of expression than the substantive content or message. So here I am running a search to find out what post-colonialism is and why it matters to an English department. I can't help wondering if these people don't have something better to do, like maybe teach students. The article talks about filling positions for "feminish scholar" or "post-colonial scholar." Perhaps that terminology is just a shortcut for scholar of feminist literature rather than a scholar who is an expert in feminism or who is a feminist... <<close readers of text against new-theory advocates and multiculturalists.>> Can you or anyone tell me what a "close reader of text" or "new-theory advocate" is? And what it has to do with the price of tea in China? Karen

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