AN ACADEMIC IN AMERICA

Goodbye, Mr. Keating

To succeed as a Ph.D. in English, you have to give up all of the things that attracted you to the subject in the first place

By THOMAS H. BENTON

Undergraduate English majors often treasure the 1989 film Dead Poets Society. The film is set in the 1950s at Welton Academy, a boarding school that is beautiful but strict in an old-fashioned way;...

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