* The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct,
carefully documented assessment of the current state and future
trajectory of English studies around the world.
* Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, and
financing in English studies around the world including China, home
to more English majors than the U.S. and U.K. combined
* Rejects prevailing narratives of contraction and decline that
dominate histories of the discipline
* Stresses English studies’ expansion within a rapidly expanding
global academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunities
such sudden and dispersive growth presents
* Essential reading for anyone interested in studying or teaching
English in higher education
Inhoudsopgave
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I The Future of English Enrollments: Massification and Global Demand 1
I Beyond Crisis 3
II Let’s Do the Numbers 9
III Not a Bust but a Boom 27
Part II The Future of English Professors: Efficiency versus Prestige in the Age of Global Rankings 51
I The Economics of Massification 53
II Doing More with Less 57
III Demand for the Doctorate 65
IV Credentials Fever 76
Part III The Future of the English Curriculum: Literary Studies in Its Global Aspect 105
I The End of the Discipline as We Know It 107
II Language versus Literature 115
III China: English Plus, Literature Minus? 126
IV English Studies and ‘Culture Studies’ in Europe and Australia 141
V Creative Writing for a Creative Economy 157
VI The Global English Major 172
Manifesto 189
Index 193
Over de auteur
THE AUTHOR
JAMES F. ENGLISH is Professor of English and the Director of the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (1994), The Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2005), and The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value, which was named Best Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine.
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