Impact and literary studies

The academic institutionalisation of English studies is a relatively recent phenomenon, with Oxford University having inaugurated an Honours School of English Language and Literature in…

English at the University of Canterbury has had a long and vigorous tradition. It continues to be an exemplar of vitality within the discipline in…

Leigh Dale's request was straightforward. She wrote, 'I am particularly interested in contributions which analyse the state of teaching and research, in the context of…

Ever since India scented the potential of a global economic order to offer unprecedented educational and employment opportunities to a large proportion of its citizens…

In recent years, both in the United States and the United Kingdom, there has been a good deal of talk about the state of Humanities…

As academics whose teaching and research fall under the lazy umbrella term 'theory' we experienced some of the collateral damage of the 'theory wars' of…

This is not an essay claiming that literature should be the impetus for political (subversive, revisionary, transforming) acts. Nor is it an essay promoting the…

In one of the first exchanges between Robyn Penrose and Vic Wilcox in David Lodge's Nice Work, Wilcox argues about the value and meaning…

'It is a grave mistake—politically, morally, tactically, strategically pedagogically—in any way to defend poetry by promoting its remoteness or its professional status, such as that…

In my first draft of this discussion of the state of the discipline, I attempted to use the metaphor of vision. This was perhaps not…