{"id":6737,"date":"2007-04-29T22:45:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T22:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/english-studies\/"},"modified":"2007-04-29T22:45:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T22:45:50","slug":"english-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/english-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"English Studies&#8217; Anchorage, Flotilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span><p>Bruce McComiskey begins his introduction to <i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncte.org\/pubs\/books\/new\/125795.htm\">English Studies<\/a>: An<br \/>\nIntroduction to the Discipline(s)<\/i> with a striking anecdote about the annual<br \/>\nRaft debate among scholars from various disciplines at Alabama-Birmingham.<br \/>\nThe Raft debates start with a sinking-boat scenario. The main ship is in<br \/>\ncrisis, and all of the passengers have hurried into lifeboats, saving just one<br \/>\nspot for a final survivor. The quandary, however, is that <i>three<\/i><br \/>\npassengers remain on the sinking ship, and all of them are professors at UAB who<br \/>\nmust vie with the others for the final seat on the life raft by making the most<br \/>\npersuasive arguments for their discipline. The arguments&#8211;a braid of<br \/>\nhumor, deliberate provocation, and refutation, frame the event, which unfolds in<br \/>\nfront of colleagues and students. Audience applause determines the winner.<br \/>\nThe scenario, in effect, contributes a sense of urgency to an otherwise playful<br \/>\n(if viciously candid) cross-disciplinary interchange. A professor of public<br \/>\nhealth defeated McComiskey (who was representing English Studies) in 1999, but<br \/>\nthe outcome was inevitably the result of disciplinary incoherence, a problem the<br \/>\nbook sets out, following the early pages, to resolve: &quot;What exactly is English<br \/>\nstudies?&quot; (2).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The bulk of the introduction is divided into three sections: English Studies<br \/>\nin Historical Context, The Problem of Specialization, and The New English<br \/>\nStudies. For my own purposes, I&#8217;m attending primarily to &quot;The Problem of<br \/>\nSpecialization,&quot; as I intend in one chunk of the dissertation to address<br \/>\nspecialization and its forms of relief (if they&#8217;re not <i>bona fide<\/i><br \/>\nremedies). The rest of the collection is organized according to fields and<br \/>\nsubfields more or less belonging to the super-category of English Studies:<br \/>\nLinguistics and Discourse Analysis, Rhetoric and Composition, Creative Writing,<br \/>\nLiterature and Literary Analysis, Critical Theory and Cultural Studies, and<br \/>\nEnglish Education.<\/p>\n<p>I find the sinking-ship scenario striking because there&#8217;s a certain shock in<br \/>\nconsidering how my own defense of English Studies above any other discipline<br \/>\nwould take shape. I&#8217;m not alarmed at the thought of defending or explaining the<br \/>\nwork <i>I<\/i> do, but it would be especially difficult to do so while at the<br \/>\nsame time disparaging the work of another field. I mean that I know little<br \/>\nenough about surrounding disciplines (a problem of specialization) that the<br \/>\nspontaneous assertions I could make about the work of most others in the academy<br \/>\nwould be based at best on myths, stereotypes, and rumors. Perhaps in direct<br \/>\nproportion to specialization, all disciplines suffer from obfuscation and<br \/>\nmisunderstanding. Meanwhile, the ship bobbed in the on-rushing waters&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I have another reason for taking note of the sinking-boat scenario, a reason<br \/>\nI will say a few things about tomorrow (or later in the week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">mins<\/span><\/span>Bruce McComiskey begins his introduction to English Studies: An Introduction to the Discipline(s) with a striking anecdote about the annual Raft debate among scholars from various disciplines at Alabama-Birmingham. The Raft debates start with a sinking-boat scenario. 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