In a personal narrative reflecting on 27 years of teaching, an adjunct faculty member realizes that she knows quite a bit firsthand about the adjunct. Judith Gappa and David Leslie, in their 1993 book, "The Invisible Faculty," state that budgets are balanced and classes assigned on the assumption that 20 to 50% of all undergraduate…

These Literacy across the Curriculum materials are designed to support schools in England that have already done considerable work on literacy across the curriculum as well as those that are just starting. The training pack contains notes for 13 possible units of training. This booklet accompanies the training which introduces schools to the…

Cautions against rapid curricular reform that overturns the value of the Anglo-American literary and cultural heritage in English curriculums. (RB)

Speech delivered at the Annual Meeting, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), November 28, 1969, in Washington, D.C. (DS)

Depicts Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims as parallels with types now in a representative university system. Speech delivered at the Association of Departments of English (ADE) Seminar, San Fernando Valley State College, Los Angeles, California, June 29-July 3, 1970. (DS)

Recommends the improvement of English teacher training programs that would include a focus on developing sensitivity to language in prospective English teachers. (AEA)

Considers the place of composition in liberal education, the proper aims and conduct of such courses.

Examines how English department faculty might demystify the job placement process for graduate students by providing candidates with a way of imagining their professional identities. Asks whether faculty expectations and fantasies escalate student anxieties and induce elitist, overbearing prose. (TB)

Presents data on trends in the academic job market, placement rates for PhDs inside and outside the academy, and levels of job satisfaction for those with doctorates. Includes samples of information available from the Modern Language Association and a bibliography of print and online publications that they recommend for planning a career in…

Describes faculty recruitment from the perspectives of a department chair and a college dean. Argues that administration and faculty must imagine ways in both recruitment and curriculum whereby interdepartmental alliances that foster interdisciplinary work can be forged. (MM)

Discusses the role of the English department head in a time of educational crisis. Examines the possibility that graduate study in English is losing its moral base. Considers the role of leadership and oppositional politics in the context of the crisis in graduate study. (HB)