A Seamless Garment of Crisis

Addendum to yesterday’s disturbing links from my beloved profession from MLA president Michael Bérubé. Another report of his talk.

Mr. Bérubé opened his remarks by saying that every aspect of graduate education in the humanities is in crisis, from the details of the curriculum to the broadest questions about its purpose. “It is like a seamless garment of crisis, in which, if you pull on any one thread, the entire thing unravels. It is therefore exceptionally difficult to address any one aspect of graduate education in isolation,” he said…