Some Documents on “The State of the Profession”

Text Box: The Profession Menand on Eliot’s role in “professionalizing” literary study Menand on Disciplines Gerald Graff on why we have Cliffs Notes Patterson on Literary History Culler on Literature Raymond Williams on “culture” Eagleton on Literature Fish on foundationalism/antifoundationalism tenure
 

 


Text Box: MLA matters MLA Statistics, 2003 MLA Statistics, 2008 MLA Statistics, comparative MLA Divisions and Discussion Groups (website) MLA Divisions MLA Discussion Groups The MLA Convention in the NYTimes, 2004 My Theoretical 2012 MLA Schedule My 2005 MLA Paper, “Comstock’s Chaucer” “Coverage”

 

UMSL Faculty list, circa 1999

 

UMSL English BA Requirements, 2008

 

UMSL English BA Requirements, 2012

 

 

 

Conferences and organizations

 

The New Chaucer Society

          2014 Congress Program

 

Medieval Institute Call for Papers, 2009

 

CFP website, UPenn

Text Box: The Humanities Donoghue on academia vs. business, c. 1910 Baldick on the 1921 Newboldt Report (“Play up! Play up!”) “The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities” “Liberal Arts Grads Win Long Term” Fish, “Will the Humanities SaveUs?” (Part II)
 


“Humanities Indicators” homepage

 

English Department Web Pages Worldwide

 

the octopus