Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Hostility to Archival Research in English Departments



http://www.academia.org/where-academia-failsagain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AccuracyInAcademia+(Accuracy+In+Academia)

When you point out shoddiness in the academia you get quoted in places you never heard of. Well, it's time that English Departments looked in a mirror.

I know that the New Historicists in English Departments shunned archival research. What has happened in History Departments in the last 30 years? Have History Departments continued to reward archival research?

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