English The Global Future of English Studies

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-119-94465-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos

* The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct,carefully documented assessment of the current state and futuretrajectory of English studies around the world.
* Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, andfinancing in English studies around the world including China, hometo more English majors than the U.S. and U.K. combined
* Rejects prevailing narratives of contraction and decline thatdominate histories of the discipline
* Stresses English studies' expansion within a rapidly expandingglobal academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunitiessuch sudden and dispersive growth presents
* Essential reading for anyone interested in studying or teachingEnglish in higher education

Autoren/Hrsg.

English, James F.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
PART I The Future of English Enrollments: Massification andGlobal 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 versusPrestige 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: LiteraryStudies 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 Europeand Australia 141
V Creative Writing for a Creative Economy 157
VI The Global English Major 172
MANIFESTO 189
Index 193

Über Autor(innen)

James F. English is Professor of English and the Directorof the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. Hisbooks include Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, andthe Politics of Community in Twentieth-CenturyBritain (1994), The Concise Companion to ContemporaryBritish Fiction (2005), and The Economy of Prestige: Prizes,Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value, which was namedBest Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine.