September 10, 1999

Persistence Paid Off for 'Lost Generation' of English Ph.D.'s, Study Finds

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

In the face of a tight job market, people took a fancy to calling English graduate students in the '80s "the lost generation of humanists."

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1995 Status of Ph.D. Recipients in English, 1983-85

But a new study shows that a surprisingly large contingent of that lost generation's members

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