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To: FJB who wrote (779958)	4/15/2014 10:28:36 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1575765

Study of English Literature Being Phased out at US Universities ................................................................................................... English Professors' Moral Panic Accuracy in Academia ^ \| April 14, 2014 \| Malcolm A. Kline If you love literature, you might find it easier to actually buy it than take a course in it. “According to the most recent comprehensive report on staffing by the Modern Language Association and the Association of Departments of English, published in 2008, English lost 3,000 tenure-track positions from 1993 to 2004, roughly 10 percent of the total,” Marc Bousquet writes in The Chronicle of Higher Education. “Even that understates the case, since more than a third of the new tenurable hires have not been in traditional literary fields but in composition, rhetoric, theory, cultural studies, new media, and digital humanities.” “Combined with evidence of lowered public interest in reading traditional literature and plummeting enrollment in traditional English majors, many faculty members in traditional literary studies have engaged in a backlash discourse against the new or renascent fields, a ‘moral panic’ in defense of traditional literary studies.” Bousquet is an associate professor of English at Emory. “Last year, at my institution, Emory University, the traditionally trained lit students typically received zero or one invitation to an MLA interview,” Bousquet relates. “Most didn’t even come close to winning campus interviews—much less tenure-track jobs—even coming from a top-25 program with support packages that rival those at Yale, Duke, and Stanford.”