This book contains reports concerning the English curriculum from more than 20 colleges and universities, including Ball State University, Carleton College, University of Chicago, Cornell University, University of Florida, Ohio State University, Rollins College, University of San Francisco, Washington University, and Yale University. Each…

Memories of student protest in the 1960s prompt the author to reflect that English departments seemed to have been teaching more criticism than history and that, if they don't want the 1960s to recur, they had better reverse this proportion. (GT)

Presents axioms about scholarship, learning, English scholarship, and English teaching and examines a little recognized intellectual crisis in current English scholarship. (GW)

Discusses some of the responses to a questionnaire survey of the English Department at the University of Michigan regarding governance, constituency, scholarship, faculty, and curriculum and pedagogy. (DD)

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…

Asserts that exploring convergences between composition and literature can bridge the gap between the two fields. (MM)

Argues that, although a split between literature and composition may create major problems and involve major risks, it can and must be done for the future of the profession. (JK)

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)

Speculates on the current and future state of composition scholarship and instruction. Predicts that writing will return to the center of liberal education. (HTH)

Asserts that William Wordsworth's poetry influenced teacher training for British educators and promoted the development of the English Department. Notes several legislative measures that played a role in English curricula. Concludes that current pedagogic studies make academic practice assumptions based on historic precedence dating back to…

Discusses the findings of an extensive research study of the authors and writing most frequently assigned in college-level English survey courses. Finds that similar historical periods and authors are considered in the survey courses offered by college and university English departments. Finds that traditional authors continue to be taught in…

Describes how the English department at Willamette University set out to revise the English curriculum as a participant in the MLA-FIPSE English Programs Curriculum Review Project. Shows how the faculty redesigned the curriculum, and shares three important ideas that might be useful to other departments undertaking similar changes. (HB)