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U of Florida fall course catalogue features classes on 'Afrofuturism,' 'Early LGBTQ Literatures'

The English Department at the University of Florida in Gainesville is set to offer classes on 'Afrofuturism' and 'E…

By Patrick McDonald '26
Aug 6, 2024

Humanities can only be saved through separation from ‘the digital order,’ argues columnist

Ross Douthat, columnist for the New York Times, recently penned an op-ed honing in on a key component in the declin…

By Ben Cook, PhD
Mar 13, 2023

PROF. ELLWANGER: These are the secret aims of anti-racism statements

After nearly two years of my resistance, this month my English department at the University of Houston – Downtown p…

By Adam Ellwanger
Feb 10, 2023

PROF. ELLWANGER: Chatbot’s essay doesn’t make the grade: Artificial intelligence and the art of writing

Can AI produce quality college-level writing? To answer this question, I experimented with a popular chatbot: ChatG…

By Adam Ellwanger
Dec 24, 2022

PROF. ELLWANGER: Low expectations in high school undermine college success

Anything less than 40 pages of formal, revised, graded writing over the course of the senior year will probably ens…

By Adam Ellwanger
Nov 6, 2022

This student spoke out when her professor played an anti-Trump video in class. Here's what happened next.

A Clemson University English class recently played the controversial 2017 Julius Caesar production that apparently …

By Mckenna Dallmeyer '22
Mar 11, 2022

Professor, 'Free Black Thought' co-founder discusses why he teaches English, not 'social justice'

Campus Reform spoke with York College of Pennsylvania Professor Erec Smith about his experience with cancel culture…

By Antoinette Aho
Jan 7, 2022

UK university course: Compliments imply racial minorities are 'generally not as intelligent as White people'

Imperial College London issued a guide saying complimenting foreign student’s English is a 'microaggression.'

By Ashley Carnahan
Jul 6, 2021

Cornell University to 'decolonize' its 'Literatures in English' curriculum

Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English is shifting major requirements, will lean less on America…

By Ben Zeisloft
Jun 4, 2021

English professor tackles 'linguistic bias' in the classroom

A professor of English wrote an op-ed arguing that the prioritization of standard academic English is a form of “li…

By Spencer Lindquist
May 24, 2021

Gender, Ethnic Studies profs earn about $12k more than peers

A new report based on salary data from the 2017-2018 academic year reveals that professors of “Area, Ethnic, Cultur…

By Celine Ryan Ciccio
Aug 13, 2018

Teacher offended by Shakespeare's 'white' male perspective

Dusbiber argued that students could learn from other forms of world literature including from African, Latin Americ…

By Mariana Barillas
Jun 15, 2015