The Humanities in the American University: A Belle Epoque?
Adam POTKAY
Department of English, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, P.O. Box 8795, Virginia, 23-187-8795, USA , United StatesDorota CHABRAJSKA
John Paul II Institute, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland , PolandAbstract
The long-term prospects for the humanities in US universities are doubtful, but if one is lucky enough to have a full-time position as a tenured or tenure-eligible professor in any high- or mid-ranked US university, there has never been a better time than right now to teach and conduct scholarly research in the humanities. At least for the moment, tenure and thus job security remain in place; class size and the number of courses taught per term have been reduced; research has been greatly facilitated by electronic databases and web publication; the critical and ideological wars of the later twentieth century are largely behind us.
Keywords:
the condition of the humanities in United States, English literature instruction, humanities research, rising tuition costs in the US, the College of William & Mary in VirginiaPOTKAY, A., & CHABRAJSKA, D. (2020). Humanistyka na uniwersytecie amerykańskim. La belle epoque?. Ethos. Quarterly of The John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of Lublin, 28(1 (109). https://doi.org/10.12887/28-2015-1-109-13
Adam POTKAY
Department of English, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, P.O. Box 8795, Virginia, 23-187-8795, USA
Department of English, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, P.O. Box 8795, Virginia, 23-187-8795, USA
Dorota CHABRAJSKA
John Paul II Institute, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
John Paul II Institute, Faculty of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin, Poland
