In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, argues that literary theory has redirected attention to the medieval liberal arts of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic. (JK)

Suggests ways to respond to the changes in the teaching of college literature wrought by recent literary criticism and theory. (DD)

Encourages the Yale English Department to put an end to the unnatural separation of the teaching of literacy and the teaching of literature. (DD)

Summarizes responses to a questionnaire on popular courses that was sent to English department chairpersons in 1977. (GW)

Summarizes responses to a questionnaire on popular literature courses that was sent to English department chairpersons. (GT)

Suggests ways to give literary theory its rightful place in literary study by teaching psychoanalytic, literary, and philosophical texts in a comparative perspective. (DD)

Discusses the role of literature in the English curriculum and the problems facing the English department at the University of Tennessee. (FL)

Discusses the idea of national literature, contemporary problems with its definition, and its history. Discusses various models of national literature. (PRA)

Describes the organization and aims of the English curriculum at the University of Iowa. (AA)

Discusses the value of literary study in developing critical thinking in two-year college students. (HOD)

In a response to the Minnesota Conference on the Future of Doctoral Study in English, argues that English departments can define future study in English by focusing on the trivium: grammar, rhetoric, and logic. Claims that, taken together, the three disciplines are potentially concerned with all issues involved in how we use words to make, do, and…

Argues that (1) even the most radical critics of departmental structures are committed to the perpetuation of English departments and, therefore, will adopt, regardless of potential contradictions, the professional discourse that validates them and (2) that this will be done even though the Babel of contemporary critical discourse makes a…

In response to George Levine's argument that the more things change the more they remain the same, the author considers three measures that would promote the value of literary study. (HOD)

Discusses the current administrative problems of English departments due to the cutback of educational funds. (RB)

Offers examples of ways that college and university departments of English can broaden students' capabilities as readers and critics. (AEA)