The Global Future of English Studies

The Global Future of English Studiespresents a succinct, carefully documented assessment of the current state and future trajectory of English studies around the world. Compiles data on student enrollments, faculty hiring, and financing in English studies around the world including China, home to more English majors than the U.S. and U.K. combined Rejects prevailing narratives of contraction and decline that dominate histories of the discipline Stresses English studies' expansion within a rapidly expanding global academic apparatus, and the new challenges and opportunities such sudden and dispersive growth presents Essential reading for anyone interested in studying or teaching English in higher education

James F. English is Professor of English and the Director of the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. His books include Comic Transactions: Literature, Humor, and the Politics of Community in Twentieth-Century Britain (1994), The Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction (2005), and The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value, which was named Best Academic Book of 2005 by New York Magazine.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Future of English Enrollments: Massification and Global Demand	p. 1
Beyond Crisis	p. 3
Let's Do the Numbers	p. 9
Not a Bust but a Boom	p. 27
The Future of English Professors: Efficiency versus Prestige in the Age of Global Rankings	p. 51
The Economics of Massification	p. 53
Doing More with Less	p. 57
Demand for the Doctorate	p. 65
Credentials Fever	p. 76
The Future of the English Curriculum: Literary Studies in Its Global Aspect	p. 105
The End of the Discipline as We Know It	p. 107
Language versus Literature	p. 115
China: English Plus, Literature Minus?	p. 126
English Studies and "Culture Studies" in Europe and Australia	p. 141
Creative Writing for a Creative Economy	p. 157
The Global English Major	p. 172
Manifesto	p. 189
Index	p. 193
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