The Global Future of English Studies - English, James F.
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This 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. English not only challenges many of the standard narratives of the decline of English studies, but turns them on their ear. With remarkable clarity, he shows how English functions within a global higher educational enterprise of massive scale and increasing…mehr

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This 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. English not only challenges many of the standard narratives of the decline of English studies, but turns them on their ear. With remarkable clarity, he shows how English functions within a global higher educational enterprise of massive scale and increasing integration, a system that is growing unevenly but rapidly around the world, and effecting major shifts in the flows of cultural capital.
The Global Future of English Studies presents 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
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Autorenporträt
THE AUTHOR JAMES F. ENGLISH is Professor of English and the Director of the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (1994), The Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2005), and The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value, which was named Best Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine.
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"At last, some good news! In this informative study, James English brings a much-needed sociological perspective to current debates on the state of literary studies. Embracing a global viewpoint and offering some eye-opening statistics, he persuasively shows why the future of English literature is far healthier and more hopeful than its doomsayers have predicted."
--Rita Felski, University of Virginia

"By shifting perspective on the discipline of English from a narrative of crisis and decline to the story of a globally transformed and expanding field, James English forces a radical revision of our understanding of what the discipline is and what it might be. Witty, learned, analytically rigorous, and cosmopolitan in its reach, this is the most important account of the state of the discipline currently available."
--John Frow, University of Melbourne

"This is an impassioned and timely defence of the academic study of English worldwide."
--Richard Todd, University of Leiden