The Global Future of English Studies

Abstract

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

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