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What were your main areas of interest?

The Ph.D. is a waste of time, frankly. I only did it because I liked hanging around uni and reading.

BA and MA. Couldn't stomach the PhD.

Did you do history? That would have been my third choice (after political philosophy).

I welcome the history majors. The ones not selling insurance or are cynical high school teachers.

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Anyway, I want to walk back my comment. I forgot that the average IQ here is less than 100.
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Some smartish people here have degrees in other subjects, I think. Not to blow our own trumpets, but the ones who do English tend to have a distinctively tolerant and broadminded perspective (look at Ash; I don't mention myself because my board persona is quite bloody-minded and evil).

Yes, but people couldn't have imagined ChatGPT way back when.
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True, but English is an odd choice. No money in it, jobs are scarce, and we are threatened with ChatGPT-induced obsolescence….

There are probably more than that. We're here because we like communicating through the written word.
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Okay, that’s more like it.
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Well, it's a Ph.D., so yes.

That's why he's the low man on the ladder, teaching DEI classes.
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So you teach with only an English degree?
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English. Yes, I've been in English all my life, almost.

Is it the only degree you have? What field are you in?
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You'd have to be in a French department to study Proust….

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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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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.

that's interesting. what are the topics? how many do you decide how many periods?
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