All the best people here have English degrees?

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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:12 PM)

You don't need to get a degree in the university I teach at. Any university will do.

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/.ㅤ — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:14 PM)

margo was the student?!!
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:19 PM)

I think not (I hope not). The student was of Swedish origin, built like a linebacker, and was quite intimidating.

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wdavi — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 10:08 PM)

She must have been a vegan.

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MissMargoChanning — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:19 PM)

margo was the student?!!
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/.ㅤ — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:18 PM)

so what else do you get to teach besides gender studies and critical race theory with an english degree?
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:22 PM)

You have the option of about sixty different periods and topics.

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/.ㅤ — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:23 PM)

that's interesting. what are the topics? how many do you decide how many periods?
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:30 PM)

Well, you could be in Medieval Studies, where there would be about a dozen courses. Or you could be in Elizabethan Litt, and teach a half dozen courses on Shakespeare alone. Or you could be a Romanticist, and teach from any of about two dozen courses (Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Romantic prose, Romantic ecology). Or you could be a Victorian specialist (another two dozen, easy). Or you could be a Modernist (three dozen, maybe). Or a postmodernist (another 3 dozen). Or you could teach feminism. Or postcolonial Litt. Or Black American writing. Or the novel. Or popular culture. There's no end, really.

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/.ㅤ — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:44 PM)

oh, i meant for you or for general english studies. i would hope a person could specialize in the area of their graduate studies. unless a person studied proust
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MissMargoChanning — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:47 PM)

Not bad!
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:51 PM)

You'd have to be in a French department to study Proust….

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HollyJollyHanukka — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:10 PM)

Is it the only degree you have? What field are you in?
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:11 PM)

English. Yes, I've been in English all my life, almost.

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HollyJollyHanukka — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:18 PM)

So you teach with only an English degree?
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/.ㅤ — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:20 PM)

That's why he's the low man on the ladder, teaching DEI classes.
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:20 PM)

Well, it's a Ph.D., so yes.

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HollyJollyHanukka — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:21 PM)

Okay, that’s more like it.
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Innocent User — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:15 PM)

There are probably more than that. We're here because we like communicating through the written word.
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dbentley666 — 10 months ago(May 19, 2025 09:17 PM)

True, but English is an odd choice. No money in it, jobs are scarce, and we are threatened with ChatGPT-induced obsolescence….