A New Report on the Crisis in the Humanities

It is probably not surprising that fields that have to do with language and literature—including, in part, the two I know best, classics and linguistics—have “undergone the most dramatic internal change.” But how depressing it is that “within history dissertations themselves,” there has been a significant chill in the tone of the very term “history,” which has become “more neutrally or critically framed,” perhaps under “the influence of metahistorical and postcolonial critiques that treat History as a contested construction rather than a neutral descriptor.” The post A New Report on the Crisis