Should Students Be Encouraged To Pursue Graduate Education in the Humanities

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 2012

Publication Source

Journal of Markets & Morality

Volume Number

15

Issue Number

2

First Page

445

Last Page

451

Publisher

Center for Economic Personalism

ISSN

1098-1217

Abstract

Last January at the Modern Language Association convention in Seattle, Brian Croxall, one of the leading young scholars of the digital humanities—and a self described “failure”, since he does not hold a permanent academic position—began his talk with a PowerPoint slide of a rejection letter that he had just received from a small department of English: “Please accept our sincere thanks for your interest in the position. We received more than nine hundred applications, so it is truly the case that there are many, many talented scholars whom we are not able to interview.” With odds like that, Croxall observed, it might be time to rethink graduate education in the humanities, at least insofar as it trains students to become college teachers.

Keywords

Graduate education, humanities, students, teachers, faculty

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