"We are a small part of a shrinking thing, tail to a dwindling dog, or that thing that, in Yeats, is fastened to the dying animal. The heart; the soul. The dying animal is the English department, perhaps the humanities as a whole."
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/ap...
"It’s strange to think of the mortality of institutions. Things that are the product of many lifetimes ending in one’s own. How easily and cavalierly the works of decades and centuries are demolished."
I've had my Masters in Lit for almost 20 years, it was and STILL is no better in the UK. The Humanities and, to a lesser extent, social sciences have been gutted and left to bleed out in favour of Stem fields.
