Description
Book SynopsisThis illuminating manifesto presents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and likely future of English studies around the world. By treating the global trends and trajectories of English studies with respect to actual student enrollments, faculty employment, curricular emphases, and emergent subfields, James F.
Table of ContentsList 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
