English: The Condition of the Subject

This collection discusses the condition of the subject of English in UK higher education and elsewhere. It understands 'English' not as idealistic or theoretical concept, but as practice made material in institutional, theoretical and human contexts. The book confronts what, how and why we teach one of the most popular university disciplines.

CAROL ATHERTON Co-ordinator of A-level English, Bourne Grammar School, Lincolnshire, UK JONATHAN BATE Professor of Literature, University of Warwick, UK RONALD CARTER Professor of Modern English Language, Nottingham University, UK MARK CURRIE Professor of English, University of East Anglia, UK GARY DAY Principal Lecturer in English, De Montfort University, UK SIMON DENTITH Professor of Literature, University of Gloucestershire, UK NATASHA DISTILLER Senior Lecturer in the English Department, University of Cape Town, South Africa ROBERT EAGLESTONE Senior Lecturer in English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, UK GRAEME HARPER Professor and Head of School, University of Portsmouth, UK CRAIG HAMILTON Lecturer in Humanities, University of California at Irvine, USA MARTIN KAYMAN Professor in the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory, and Head of the School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, UK REVATHI KRISHNASWAMY Teaches at San Jose State University, California, USA ANDY MOUSLEY Senior Lecturer in English, DeMontfort University, UK SHARON O’DAIR Professor of English, University of Alabama, USA MARK ROBSON Teaches at the University of Nottingham, UK LAURENCE STEVEN Teaches English at Laurentian University, Canada