June 2, 2000

English Curriculum Favors Morrison Over Swift, Report Says

By COURTNEY LEATHERMAN

English majors at elite liberal-arts colleges are more likely to encounter the writings of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston than those of Mark Twain, Henry Fielding, and Jonathan Swift, according to a report released last week by the National Association of Scholars.

The association decried its findings, while professors at the colleges both discounted and disputed them.

The report, "Losing the Big Picture: The Fragmentation of the English Major

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