{"id":14403,"date":"2010-07-29T00:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-29T04:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=14403"},"modified":"2010-07-29T00:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-29T04:08:51","slug":"macleans-academic-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/07\/29\/macleans-academic-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Maclean’s: “Academic Vandalism”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maclean’s<\/em> article on the closing of the Centre for Contemporary Literature here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An excerpt, including a quote from our own Jonathan Allan:<\/p>\n

Students have organized a campaign called \u201cSave Comparative Literature\u201d that includes a petition with around 5,800 signatures, including Margaret Atwood\u2019s. Online forums have seen an unfavourable acronym attached to the School of Languages and Literature at U of T, namely \u201cSLLUT.\u201d<\/a>Some students see the plan as a breach of contract. \u201cI think something that is going to be very difficult for us going on the job market is that we are the last classes for the [Centre] and that\u2019s damaging to us,\u201d fourth-year PhD student Jonathan Allan said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t agree to come to the University of Toronto to become a part of some school of languages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professors are similarly disappointed. Linda Hutcheon, who teaches at the Centre, although her home department is English, says that interdisciplinary studies, like comparative literature, are being threatened. \u201cThere\u2019s no other Centre that brings people together, not only from other languages to work together, but from other disciplines, from history to sociology to the theatre,\u201d she told Maclean\u2019s<\/em>. \u201cAlmost every school in the United States has a comparative literature department. That\u2019s the joke.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maclean’s article on the closing of the Centre for Contemporary Literature here. An excerpt, including a quote from our own Jonathan Allan: Students have organized a campaign called \u201cSave Comparative Literature\u201d that includes a petition with around 5,800 signatures, including Margaret Atwood\u2019s. 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