Both Open Culture and The New York Times have reported on the Open Syllabus Project, which has tallied over a million college course syllabi to determine the 10,000 or so most commonly assigned texts. The project also provides a cluster map of these texts, which is probably less interesting (and more confusing) in its large form than when one pokes […]
Posts Tagged ‘canon’
33⅓ Environmental Studies greats (or, a canon, revisited)
Posted in Academe, Eco-culture, tagged ASLE, canon, canonism & anti-canonism, ecocriticism, environmental humanities, environmental studies, John Lane on April 9, 2015 | 10 Comments »
The following is a significantly revised version of an article I posted to the Indications blog (and etc) five and a half years ago. I was curious to see how much of it still holds (a lot, I think), so I’ve revisited it and expanded its proposed sort-of-canon, in the second part of what follows, into a list of […]
Top humanists of the last century
Posted in Academe, tagged canon, humanities on May 18, 2014 | 18 Comments »
A theme that’s been coming up in my conversations recently (including when visiting UC Davis) is the question of the “humanities canon”: i.e., who are the theorists whose views have been most influential in shaping the humanities disciplines, especially over the last century or so? And more specifically, is there anything approximating an “environmental humanities canon,” and who are […]