Conservatives' insistence that they're unfairly marginalized from the academy is difficult to square with their conviction that multiple academic fields, emerging from sincere engagement with the social and material conditions of modern life, simply should not exist
...from the argument that Greek and Latin ought to have to share space, prominence and tenure-lines with a range of other pre-modern Mediterranean languages/cultures or (as I've seen proposed), all global 'ancient' cultures, however defined.
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Both plans would, in theory, involve unemploying quite a lot of scholars in the respective discipline with the sometimes tacit, sometimes explicit assumption that some small number of 'worthy' scholars in the discipline would survive by finding places in new combined departments.
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I would read a specific such critique if you have one in mind, but my instinct is to say that latter species is disingenuous. Gendered or queer-theory-based readings of literary texts, for example, are also wildly unpopular on the right.
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The Pope Center's report on the UNC system a few years back asserted that English departments were failing just because they dedicated classes to Black, queer, and woman *authors*, without even bothering to take aim at methodology
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