No responsible adviser in a doctoral program in English now would recommend a single-author dissertation if a tenure-track job in the profession is the goal—an ever more daunting one, given the implosion of literature departments, and of so many disciplines across the humanities.
—
Eric Bulson,
The Atlantic,
16 June 2025
Both pursuits satisfy our craving for signs of humanity in a being thought to be divine.
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