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Identity Focus on Campus Goes Back Many Decades

The memory of an all-white-male professoriate lingers in people’s minds.
Identity Focus on Campus Goes Back Many Decades
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When I came out of graduate school in 1988, I hoped to get a tenure-track job at a decent college, any place that offered not too heavy a teaching load and regarded English as a core discipline.

Mark Bauerlein
Mark Bauerlein
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Mark Bauerlein is an emeritus professor of English at Emory University. His work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, The Washington Post, the TLS, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.