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“Non-strategic” Eastern Europe and the Fate of the Humanities
“Non-strategic” Eastern Europe and the Fate of the Humanities

Author(s): Clare Cavanagh
Subject(s): Higher Education , State/Government and Education, Applied Sociology, Sociology of Education
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Eastern European literary studies; literature in higher eduction; humanities in higher eduction; humanities and STEM; Eastern Europe in the curriculum;

Summary/Abstract: Until recent events intervened, Eastern European Studies found themselves under attack at my home university and other institutions for being, among other things, “non-strategic.” We see the same notion, if not the same terminology, applied increasingly to the humanities and non-quantitative social sciences, which lose ground daily to the so-called STEM disciplines in both educational policy and practice. How do we defend the study of Eastern European literature and culture in the current academic climate? This essay defends the centrality both of literary and Eastern European studies in the twenty-first-century curriculum.

  • Issue Year: 29/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 3-9
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English