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...Camille Paglia, who is a flashy foe of academicpost-modernism and what she calls"feminist-careerism," said that although Schor is"bright," she "has made no contribution toscholarship...
...Naomi Schor belongs to that elite, very high,little incestuous elite, as far I'm concerned,mediocrities, who grabbed on post-structuralism,"Paglia said in an interview yesterday...
...Paglia, who in a November speech at the KennedySchool of Government attacked Harvard's Departmentof Romance Languages and Literatures as being "outof touch," said she was disappointed that Yale hadhired Schor...
...Paglia, who is professor of the humanities atthe University of the Arts in Philadelphia, saidSchor's career move "is an excellent example ofthe kind of amoral careerism and the nakedambition that has been so typical of literaryscholars who drove up salaries in the starsystem...
Surely there are ways that we can think about making educational reforms. Yet purging our souls of postmodernism is undoubtedly the wrong way to go about affecting change. We'll have to wait to see whether "postmodern" will prove to be a useful and enduring literary term. But Paglia's use of the word as an expression of her own vague disgruntlement-however justifiable or unjustifiable her anger may be-does a disservice to the issue she would like to address. As a means of discussing problems within our educational system, grumbling that everything has become too "postmodern" just doesn...