Teacher (Penn State), writer of books about China and the West, literary worlds, academic style, history of the humanities. New project on the end of aesthetic history.
Arsenal fan, occasional Cassandra.
Eric Hayot
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"This committee’s report would be terrible in the best of times, with its secret evidence and embarrassingly weak arguments compounded by a call for administrative repression. But to make these fantastical claims during the middle of a war against the humanities is a particularly dangerous delusion"
Anna Kornbluh
My column today for @insidehighered.com criticizes the new report on the decline of the #humanities and all its flaws.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
There is virtually no evidence offered in the report for its sweeping conclusions about the entirety of the humanities.
