Word: academia
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...publishing industry. “There was once the post-Gutenberg generation. Now we are dealing with the post-Google generation,” says Sharmilla Sen ’92, an acquisition editor for the Humanities. Still, the editors are confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function—it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant. “In 20 years...
...Ph.D in English at Harvard, thinks differently about the children’s literature market. The author of last year’s young adult novel “The Cabinet of Wonders” and an assistant professor at Brooklyn College, Rutkoski found that getting hired in academia was harder than getting published. “In some ways, getting published in children’s literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature,” Rutkoski says. “It’s less hinged on who you might know.”Still...
...Still, the editors are confident that the services they provide to academia and readers at large will not become obsolete. “We perform a scholarly function—it’s eminently transportable to other media,” Knoll says. They hope that while information-gathering is changing, the book will remain relevant...
...Critics lament that animal studies programs privilege a particular theme (here, animals) over a mode of inquiry (for example, scientific analysis), while favoring a politicization of academia by conveying overt animal -rights messages...
...politicization critique bears more weight but does not warrant derision. Many (though by no means all) animal studies scholars do support animal rights, just as African American studies scholars typically favor civil rights, and environmental studies and women studies scholars are often environmentalists and feminists, respectively. Academia is full of normative debates demanding opinions; what matters is that all viewpoints are presented and that critical discourse is encouraged...