Inside Higher Ed: English professor says university humanities are intellectually bankrupt

Release Date: December 30, 2009 This content is archived.

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An article on Inside Higher Ed about questions raised during the annual meeting of the Modern Languages Association over how writing should be taught to undergraduates quotes Arabella Lyon, associate professor of English, whose criticism extended beyond the field of writing to the "intellectual bankruptcy of the humanities in the university today."

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