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The Global Future of English Studies
ISBN-13:
9781119944652
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
E-Book
Seiten:
208
Autor:
James F. English
Serie:
Blackwell Manifestos
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable E-Book
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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
* The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinctcarefully 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
List of Illustrations ixPreface xiAcknowledgments xiiiPart I The Future of English Enrollments: Massification and Global Demand 1I Beyond Crisis 3II Let's Do the Numbers 9III Not a Bust but a Boom 27Part II The Future of English Professors: Efficiency versus Prestige in the Age of Global Rankings 51I The Economics of Massification 53II Doing More with Less 57III Demand for the Doctorate 65IV Credentials Fever 76Part III The Future of the English Curriculum: Literary Studies in Its Global Aspect 105I The End of the Discipline as We Know It 107II Language versus Literature 115III China: English Plus, Literature Minus? 126IV English Studies and "Culture Studies" in Europe and Australia 141V Creative Writing for a Creative Economy 157VI The Global English Major 172Manifesto 189Index 193