...Deborah H. Holdstein The Humanities “Crisis” and the Future of Literary Studies . By Jay Paul . New York : Palgrave-Macmillan , 2014 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Work Cited Shelley Percy Bysshe . 1819 . “Defence of Poetry.” Fordham University Modern...

... of ameliorating the present crisis in the humanities. The writers also explain the more particular disciplinary, institutional, and departmental benefits of the conference, and suggest strategies for implementing such a conference on other campuses. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Burke, Edmund...

... that literature is uniquely situated to teach the skills colleges most want students to acquire in their general education curricula, in turn providing a crucial method for responding to the “crisis” of the humanities in higher education today. Post- racial Preoccupations Nella Larsen, Rachel Dolezal...

... they positioned themselves. Drifting into the lecture hall or making policy across campus, these extradisciplinary ILC stakeholders become specters of the crisis in the humanities. 4 The anticipation of tension between instructors’ and students’ values understandably makes communicating—let alone...

...? What Crisis? Defending the Humanities — and Literary Study. Review of The Humanities “Crisis” and the Future of Literary Studies, by Paul Jay 577 Ortmeier-­Hooper, Christina, and Meaghan Elliott | Introduction: Developing a Dialogue about Language and Politics 383...

...Deborah Carlin © 2002 Duke University Press 2002 Ad Hoc Student-Faculty CPE Response Committee, CUNY. 1999 . Letter. PMLA 114 : 229 -32. Bérubé, Michael, and Cary Nelson, eds. 1995 . Higher Education under Fire: Politics,Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities . New...

... . “What Do You Need to Start—and Sustain—a Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Program?” WPA: Writing Program Administration 15 : 25 -34. Scott, Joan W. 1995 . “The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education.” In Higher Education under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities , ed...

.... chronicle.com/article/The-Humanities-Really-Do/64740/ . Editors’ Introduction The Bottom Line Jennifer L. Holberg and Marcy Taylor It seems that everywhere one looks these days, the debate over the “crisis in the humanities” is raging unabated. The profession, as all our readers have...

... Composition: The Limits of Authority.” College Composition and Communication 40 : 51 -59. Scott, Joan W. 1995 . “The Rhetoric of Crisis in Higher Education.” In Higher Education under Fire: Politics,Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities , ed. Michael Bérubé and Cary Nelson, 293 -303. New York...

...: Online Communities as a Source of Professional Learning.” British Journal of Educational Technology 41 . 2 : 324 – 40 . Fish Stanley . 2010 . “The Crisis of the Humanities Officially Arrives.” New York Times , 11 October , opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-crisis...

... by posing some questions prompted by pedagogical content knowledge, ending by asking, why should students read literature, anyway? This question haunts us in the ubiquitous discussions of the crisis in the humanities and in the frustrated students in our classes who do not nec- essarily feel the way...

... society, admitting that this change comes with a sense of loss for him. Others hold a more optimistic view. Marjorie Perloff (2004: 17) acknowledges what may be considered a “crisis in the humanities” but claims that training in the skills of reading literary texts “will come back into favor...

... crisis in the humanities and the particular crisis in English departments, which are often perceived by other parts of the college as merely service units, is an intense crisis of the power of thought, imagination, and politics. On many days we feel as if our work is profoundly separated from the ways...

... crisis in the humanities and the particular crisis in English departments, which are often perceived by other parts of the college as merely service units, is an intense crisis of the power of thought, imagination, and politics. On many days we feel as if our work is profoundly separated from the ways...

..., and the Crisis of the Humanities . New York:Routledge. Brannon, Lil, and Brenda M. Greene, eds. 1997 . Rethinking American Literature . Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English. Butler, Judith. 2000 . Antigone's Claim:Kinship between Life and Death . New York: Columbia University Press...

... for a literature conference for undergraduate students. Why an Undergraduate Conference? NUCL’s Place in Rethinking Humanities Education One need not look far these days to find voices proclaiming a crisis in the humanities or in academia at large. In a much-­discussed New York Times editorial...

... need not look far these days to find voices proclaiming a crisis in the humanities or in academia at large. In a much-­discussed New York Times editorial of April 2009, Columbia University professor Mark C. Taylor (2009) called — in his title, no less — to “End the University as We Know...

... of public support for various fields or higher education in general (National Task Force on Scholarship and the Public Humanities 1990; Hall 1990; Readings 1996; Lye et al. 2011). This tendency toward discourses of crisis has been particularly widespread in the humanities, where the most severe...

... Greenblatt, on behalf of the MLA Executive Council, pointed to a serious problem in the publishing of scholarly books and asked for the membership s assistance. When the president of the MLA claims that the profession is in a crisis, one that affects the future of scholarship in the humanities...

... tools and research opportunities. Consequently, as journals such as the Chronicle of Higher Education speculate on the crisis in the humanities and as universities invest in the digital humanities, I feel that the juxtaposition of books and television shows can still serve us well...