Why Study English? To Follow Your Passions

FILE - Students walk past the Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Complex at the California State University, Los Angeles campus, April 25, 2019.

For Inside Higher Ed, professor Sarah Wasserman argues that students should study fields they care about, and that humanities departments should market themselves as places of intellectual discovery and joy.

Amid declining enrollments, she writes that literary scholars need to double down on their original mission. (November 2023)