Academic literary studies apparently has little to do with the world in which living readers live. Bruce Fleming says, “It’s, well, academic, about syllabi and hiring decisions, how works relate to each other, and how the author is oppressing whomever through the work.”
How funny that you’d post this. Yesterday I called a particular university to ask about transferring into their Master’s program. For fifteen minutes, I wasn’t allowed to complete a sentence and every question I asked was treated as if it was the most ignorant thing the representative had heard. Afterwards I told my wife that higher education seems to treat exclusion as a virtue.
I don’t suppose that phone call was monitored for quality assurance. I’ve only dealt with someone about Master’s programs in my city’s university, and she was very helpful. Not that I did anything with it.
No, I don’t suppose it was. Or maybe I just asked particularly stupid questions. I dunno …
No, I don’t beleive you did. You may not have asked anything insightful, but if your questions were honest, then your questions were good. Are you in a Master’s at another university now?