Despair, debt, frustration, a decade in school rewarded with guaranteed joblessness. If this cocktail of woe sounds good to you, consider getting a Ph.D. in English, History, or any other humanities discipline. At the New York Times, yet another of the recent spate of articles explaining how utterly dismal the prospects of recent humanities Ph.D.s are.
The Humanities Ph.D.: Less Than Useless
The United States of Poetry
Poetry readership among U.S. adults is the highest it's been in 15 years—with young adult readership (among 18-24 year olds) nearly doubling—according to the National Endowment for the Arts’ 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA). (For what it's worth: The Millions has always loved poetry).
To Train Up a Child
The self-proclaimed Christian parenting book, To Train Up a Child, has come under fire in the wake of the three child deaths. Critics started an online petition asking Amazon chief Jeff Bezos to stop selling the book; over 9,000 people have signed it.
Mixer Publishing Contest
"Mixer publishing, with guest editor Paul Tremblay (author of Swallowing A Donkey's Eye), is offering a $1,200 honorarium for the best speculative/sci-fi story, graphic narrative (comic), or poem." The contest deadline is June 30th.
Gun Wizard
What do you call a genre that mixes westerns and fantasy novels? Damien Walter proposes the term “weird western.” In The Guardian, he runs down the history of the hybrid category, citing Joe Abercrombie’s Red Country and Molly Tanzer’s Vermillion as examples. Pair with Daniel Kalder on the Euro-Western.
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Oldest Books
The fine folks at the Vintage and Anchor Tumblr account have compiled a list of the ten oldest books known to man.
Gulf Stream, Issue 9
The creative writing department at Florida International University has released the ninth issue of their on-campus literary magazine, Gulf Stream. The issue features the publication’s first inaugural Author Roundtable – a discussion between agents and writers from the Miami Writers Institute and novelists Cathy Day and Marc Fitten.
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excuse you, humanities are linked to everything in context as all that we humans portray ourselves to be in our worlds and minds. whatever outcome a single human action has, it can be reinforced logivcally through some kind of humanity I.E Pssychology. discouraging young adults getting a phd in a humanity is completely shameful in the many interests of human life. without the common study of humanities, iI highly doubt you would even know how you make yourself human and exactly what fits you as an editor into the society which you write posts for
Had you read the post properly, perhaps you would have understood that I was not arguing against the spiritual or human value of an education in the humanities but the material and economic value of a higher degree–a doctorate–in the humanities.
Please read more carefully before you’re rude and dismissive. And thanks for reading.