In the wake of my experience as President of the Modern Language Association in 2010, I felt the need to think through the changes in the everyday life of academic humanists now and in the next decades and to expand …  Continue to Post »

While speaking to humanities faculty and graduate students at Washington University in 2017, I was asked the following question: “In the introduction to your book, you talk about the community surrounding graduate students—not just colleagues and professors/mentors, but also family …  Continue to Post »

What are some of the challenges facing graduate students entering PhD programs and the faculty members charged with mentoring  students in the second decade of the twenty-first century? Challenges for faculty mentors: Faculty find themselves enervated by the intensity of their …  Continue to Post »

The future of the humanities lies in the diverse range of faculty interests, angles of analysis, theoretical investments, and imaginative disruptions of fields; it lies in the diversity of the professoriate. Expanding the diversity of experiential histories that students bring …  Continue to Post »