January 1, 2012
Saving German Studies, via Europe
By most accounts, the position of German studies in the American academy is no longer secure. To a large extent, that is due to reasons beyond the control of individual faculty or departments, including the general crisis faced by the humanities and the diminished importance in the eyes of the public of literary criticism, a vital part of the study of a language and its culture. Add to that the corporatization of higher education, with its focus on the bottom line, the shifting enrollments in
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