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Where Are We Going and Who Will We Teach?: Conjectures about Comparative Literature and the Humanities

Where Are We Going and Who Will We Teach?: Conjectures about Comparative Literature and the... ross shiDeler Where Are We Going and Who Will We Teach? Conjectures about Comparative Literature and the Humanities1 This paper offers a dark and light macro and micro vision of graduate education in the Humanities in the United States with some anecdotal evidence specific to Comparative Literature. I'll intersperse my comments with some data and conclude with a few comments about the future of Comparative Literature. As Haun Saussy has so eloquently argued, "Comparative Literature has won its battles. It has never been better received in the American university" (3). But where is the American university going? As an amateur in the field of higher education studies, let me propose a few answers. First, Comparative Literature in the U.S. seems to be thriving. The membership of the aCla has doubled from approximately 600 to 1200 in the past two years. There are about 175 Comparative Literature programs and departments in the U.S. according to the September 2006 pmla. Not all of these, however, are in the Carnegie Foundation's 96 Very High Research Universities, nor in the 103 High Research Universities and 84 Basic Doctoral Research Universities (see Carnegiefoundation. org or The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac Issue 2006­07). http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Where Are We Going and Who Will We Teach?: Conjectures about Comparative Literature and the Humanities

Shideler, Ross.
The Comparatist , Volume 32 (1) – May 24, 2008
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ross shiDeler Where Are We Going and Who Will We Teach? Conjectures about Comparative Literature and the Humanities1 This paper offers a dark and light macro and micro vision of graduate education in the Humanities in the United States with some anecdotal evidence specific to Comparative Literature. I'll intersperse my comments with some data and conclude with a few comments about the future of Comparative Literature. As Haun Saussy has so eloquently argued, "Comparative Literature has won its battles. It has never been better received in the American university" (3). But where is the American university going? As an amateur in the field of higher education studies, let me propose a few answers. First, Comparative Literature in the U.S. seems to be thriving. The membership of the aCla has doubled from approximately 600 to 1200 in the past two years. There are about 175 Comparative Literature programs and departments in the U.S. according to the September 2006 pmla. Not all of these, however, are in the Carnegie Foundation's 96 Very High Research Universities, nor in the 103 High Research Universities and 84 Basic Doctoral Research Universities (see Carnegiefoundation. org or The Chronicle of Higher Education Almanac Issue 2006­07).

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Published: May 24, 2008

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