Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2020
I want to begin with some anecdotal facts:
Item: a first-year seminar on multiethnicity in New York is taught at Barnard College only by the English faculty.
Item: a senior seminar on epic and romance in the Middle Ages, announced in the fall 2002 offerings of the University of Michigan's English department, will include works by Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France, but the only texts to be read in the original language are in Middle English.
Item: a comparative literature course on modernism, magical realism, and postmodernism at the University of Michigan for fall 2002 will read texts by Proust, Kafka, Mann, Borges, García Márquez, Tekin, Calvino, and Pamuk in English only