ACADEMIC AT LARGE

Defending Literary Studies Has Become a Lost Cause

By MICHAEL BERUBE

Now that I am the director of an interdisciplinary humanities program, with a staff of 150, an annual budget of $3-billion (that covers one Stealth bomber and 40,000 postdocs at $25,000 each), and a 24-hour drive-up window, I can finally tell the truth about my discipline and my colleagues: Contemporary scholarship in the humanities...

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