{"product_id":"the-last-professors-9780823228607","title":"The Last Professors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"People sometimes believe that they were born too late or too early. After reading Donoghue's book, I feel that I have timed it just right, for it seems that I have had a career that would not have been available to me had I entered the world 50 years later. Just lucky, I guess.\"-The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An associate professor of English at Ohio State University, Frank Donoghue, insightfully analyzes, predicts, and laments the inevitable extinction of the faculty of the humanities-especially literature-at flagship state universities.\" -- Bruce A. Kimball -The Journal of Higher Education \"Donoghue's well written, thoroughly documented and convincingly reported book is a must read...\" -The Ukrainian Quarterly \"... focuses on the daunting challenges facing new humanities Ph.D.s in an increasingly corporatized academy.\" -Technology and Culture \"... Donoghue writes that tenure-track and tenured professors now make up only 35 percent of college facutly, and that number is steadily falling.\" -- -Valerie Saturen In These Times \"Donoghue says that in our time the corporate university will end professors as we have come to know them.\" -- -Leonard R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406124982615,"sku":"9780823228607","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823228607.jpg?v=1730494613","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-professors-9780823228607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}