On the English major, death of humanities

Here's a roundup of articles on "the end of English major," which stirred up after an article by Nathan Heller in The New Yorker earlier this year.

2024

• Dec. 10: Reports of English literature’s death have been greatly exaggerated - Ben Wright - MSN

• Oct. 2: The Death of Education: In defense of the humanities - Evan Wang - Tufts Daily

• June 4: Don’t Major in English: And Other Bad Advice from the World - Jessica Wilson - Public Discourse

• April 1: As Many Mourn the ‘Death of the Humanities,’ Harvard Profs. Say It’s Not That Simple - Stella M. Nakada - The Harvard Crimson 

• Jan. 24: Defunding liberal arts is dangerous for health care - Holly J. Humphrey - STAT

• Jan. 20: Literature Humanities and the Democratic Moral Imagination - Larry Jackson - Columbia College Today

• Jan. 4: Futures of Literary Criticism - Michael Meranze and Christopher Newfield - UC Press Blog 

2023

• Nov. 3: Can Humanities Survive the Budget Cuts? - Anemona Hartocollis - New York Times

• May 20: College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle - Nick Anderson - Washington Post

• May 3: Where Did All The English Majors Go? - Rebecca Sparacio - Cornell Sun

• April 7: The end of the English major is just the tip of the iceberg - Sydney Emerson - Allegheny Campus

• April 2: Letter from an English Department on the Brink - Sarah Blackwood - The New York Review of Books

• April 1: The crisis in arts and humanities: Rhetoric or reality? - Nathan M. Greenfield - University World News

• March 31: As humanities lose numbers...Duke grapples with similar trends - Zoe Spicer - Duke Chronicle

• March 9: The English Major, After the End - Andrew Newman - Inside Higher Ed

• March 8: End of the English Major? Hardly! - CUNY Graduate Center

• March 8: Are the humanities at American universities in crisis? - David Herman - The Article

• March 1: Go ahead and major in English. You’ll be fine! - Matt Pearce - Los Angeles Times

• Feb. 28: Praise for Nathan Heller's "The End of the English Major" -- Odile Hobeika - Medium

• Feb. 27: The End of the English Major - Nathan Heller - The New Yorker

• Feb. 2: STEM who? The humanities mount a comeback - Jennifer A. Kingson - Axios 

2022

• Dec. 1: Five Theses on the Humanities Crisis - Aden Barton - The Crimson

• Oct. 24: Where have all the English majors gone? - Los Angeles Times

• Summer: The State of the Humanities circa 2022 - Robert B. Townsend, Norman Bradburn - Daedalus

2021

•  Nov. 30: Decline of the Humanities: Where Does It STEM From? - Ben Goldstein - The Cornell Diplomat

• Nov. 22: Number in the humanities drops  - Jill Barshay - American Academy of the Arts & Sciences

2020 

• Jan. 16: Can We Save Our Dying English Departments? -- The Imaginative Conservative 

• Jan.: Endgame: Can literary studies survive? -- The Chronicle of Higher Education

2018

• Aug. 23: The Humanities Are in Crisis - Benjamin Schmidt - The Atlantic

2014

• Jan. 28: The Death of the Humanities - Victor Davis Hanson - Hoover Institution 

• The Humanities Crisis Then and Now - Paul Jay

2010

• Oct. 28: "Crisis in the Humanities" Day at MLA - Marjorie Perloff - Stanford Humanities Today

2004

• Crisis in the Humanities - Marjorie Perloff 

Related:

• Paula Krebs and the Case for the Humanities

• Coverage of the Humanities conversation (2013)

• Coverage of 'the death of poetry' & 'too many poets' conversations