Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University

This fall marks the 45th anniversary of the collapse of the job market for humanities PhDs. Thanks in large part to adjuncting, the market has never fully recovered. Assuming perm-austerity in university finances and distruptive debates about student learning, how should graduate programs respond? Speaker Christopher Newfield's prior research suggested the humanities have been too […]

Literary study has lost ground within universities and with the general public because of two apparent failures. It doesn't seem to produce research knowledge of the kind defined by the natural and physical sciences. It also appears not to help to solve public problems like climate change, structural racism, faltering technological innovation, or economic inequality. […]