[Vwoolf] Not About Virginia Woolf—but another doomsday piece on the MLA

Sat Mar 19 11:40:06 EDT 2022

Hi Karen and Ben and everyone,

The future of the humanities and liberal arts is rather grim in multiple ways. The emphasis on STEM as the sole academic area worthy of funding and hiring is yet another inroad on education overall. World languages are being cancelled, history is being cancelled, the arts are being cancelled, literary studies are being cancelled (and not just in higher education)....

If there's a problem accessing the WaPo article, I've created a Dropbox link (as did Ben for the COHE).
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Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women's and Gender Studies Program
Managing Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.

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One of the two IVWS-MLA 2022 sessions was postponed to the 2023 convention (meaning we might have three sessions in San Francisco). The online IVWS-MLA session, “Woolf’s 21st-Century Academia,” was well attended over Zoom (and superb!). I can’t ZjQcmQRYFpfptBannerStart
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One of the two IVWS-MLA 2022 sessions was postponed to the 2023 convention (meaning we might have three sessions in San Francisco). The online IVWS-MLA session, “Woolf’s 21st-Century Academia,” was well attended over Zoom (and superb!). I can’t recall the exact number of attendees, but I think it was between 20 and 30?

Related to the article that Karen has shared is a recent piece by Dora Zhang, who has written on Woolf in Strange Likeness: Description and the Modernist Novel. Here is the link to the piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-there-a-future-for-literary-studies__;!!KGKeukY!neHH4DvljPd5iLd-oM7sXYqtTruIjHW7_tOhbr23cc3atAQ52satqn2lNuiw_T5RziE$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https*3A*2F*2Furldefense.com*2Fv3*2F__https*3A*2F*2Fwww.chronicle.com*2Farticle*2Fis-there-a-future-for-literary-studies__*3B!!KGKeukY!g44nsSAFirFESsY0nQrMHIH2pXcH3m7Qde0Y-9lTmjmjih2mOZ0zbr9tsg5NwhokWz0*24&data=04*7C01*7Cneverowv1*40southernct.edu*7Cb3f2efe747cb43e0f59508da09b3a2e7*7C58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67*7C0*7C0*7C637832965705647120*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0*3D*7C3000&sdata=FEG1sopQEj8oCbz770PUzvmFC*2B2uGwgWWob3BiY4QJQ*3D&reserved=0__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!KGKeukY!neHH4DvljPd5iLd-oM7sXYqtTruIjHW7_tOhbr23cc3atAQ52satqn2lNuiwSkbK_LU$ >.

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Best,

Ben

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Were the Woolf sessions (relatively well-) attended?
Karen Levenback

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