The Condition of English: Taking Stock in a Time of Culture Wars

Can This Marriage Be Saved: Is an English Department a Good Home for Technical Communication?

“…If professional writing programs continue to grow, they may find themselves being courted by their colleagues much as those engaged in saving a marriage decide to make changes to increase their partner's happiness. Some of these changes are already under way in English departments that have become so diversified that literature no longer dominates [56,58,59].…”

An Initial Exploration of the Undergraduate English Major Curricula Issued by the 2000-2001 Member Schools of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities

“…The initial survey and report had a narrow focus, certainly not one underscoring reform, as evidenced by its report title: "What's Being Read in Survey Courses?" Perhaps such a constricted topic reflected, as Fleishman (1995) claimed, external political pressures exerted by such works as the 1988 Lynne Cheney report to the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) which criticized the English teaching profession on several counts-including a putative liberal bias in its assigned literature (Huber, 1996, p. 813).…”

“…Balch and Brasor would undoubtedly applaud the CCCU Types 1.0 and 1.5 curricula for stressing traditional literature. Fleishman (1995) wrote a less polemical assessment of recent changes within English, in general, and within its curriculum, when he criticized "literary studies [for not being] a unified field [and for not being] organized around a single center. .…”