BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

I wrote a bit last time about a few of the things I think the English major is and does. I said, for instance, that, "We study the varying and sometimes contradictory ways that excursions into language can be transformed into meaning - and in our work as teachers and scholars we pay an especially exacting sort of attention to the processes by which such meaning is assembled, dispersed, freighted with joy or with anguish, and otherwise deployed into the larger world." If you want, you can find more descriptions to that effect here... To put it gently, these are rough times in the larger world - days overfull of fire, ruin, and fear. And listen, I'm not going to tell you that reading books is the solution to all this, or that you'll find in them some readymade roadmap to a world less catastrophic. I wish it were so; I don't think it is... The University of Illinois at Chicago English Department

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