Not a story for everybody, but if you follow academic literary fashions you might find it intriguing. Posthuman is all the rage--but SF folks have known that for a long time. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
Journalism
“The Literary Anthology, Revised and Excised”
Who gets to decide what goes in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and what other choices do Brit-lit-survey instructors have? Do we still need anthologies anyway--and do students even know how to use them? I talked to editors and classroom types to get some answers. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Split Between Two Academic Organizations Has Religion Scholars Fretting”
A schism of Biblical proportions. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Americans Are Closing the Book on Reading”
The National Endowment for the Arts declares reading dead (again). Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Enrollments in Foreign-Language Classes Continue to Rise, M.LA. Survey Finds”
But the news is not all good, especially if you compare the new numbers to language-enrollment rates from 40 years ago. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
