Global Future of English Studies

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