A Crisis in Academic Publishing Gives Way to a Crisis in the Humanities

MLA BOOKENDS: A little more than a year ago, the buzz at the 2003 Modern Language Association convention in sunny San Diego centered largely on the crisis in academic publishing.

The association even organized a panel of prominent scholars and editors -- including the 2005 MLA president Domna C. Stanton, Columbia University Press's editorial director Jennifer Crewe, and Judith L. Ryan, a Harvard University professor of German and comparative literature -- who groped for fresh

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