基本説明
This book presents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies around the world.
Full Description
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
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I The Future of English Enrollments: Massification and Global Demand 1
I Beyond Crisis 3
II Let's Do the Numbers 9
III Not a Bust but a Boom 27
Part II The Future of English Professors: Efficiency versus Prestige in the Age of Global Rankings 51
I The Economics of Massification 53
II Doing More with Less 57
III Demand for the Doctorate 65
IV Credentials Fever 76
Part III The Future of the English Curriculum: Literary Studies in Its Global Aspect 105
I The End of the Discipline as We Know It 107
II Language versus Literature 115
III China: English Plus, Literature Minus? 126
IV English Studies and "Culture Studies" in Europe and Australia 141
V Creative Writing for a Creative Economy 157
VI The Global English Major 172
Manifesto 189
Index 193
