New Report Suggests English Lit Profs. Writing Too Much Worthless, Well, Crap
by John D’Angelo Here’s what stupid uneducated people imagine that college literature professors do: teach. Here is what college literature professors actually do: write obscure papers that nobody will read. Now that’s where it’s at! Teaching unmotivated 19-year-olds about what James Joyce “meant” is not why literature professors spent nine years in college getting various degrees of questionable value to society, okay? They got those degrees in order to be able to eloquently engage in literary microfeuds conducted via barely-read niche publications, see? Now, a traitorous Emory English professor is suggesting that all these academic papers that lit professors spend all their […]
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