OT: survey of the academics

[Jonathan Lighter]

Amy, my three degrees are in English, though I took them just before that discipline began to collapse in a welter of omphaloskeptic cultural theory.  I chose literature over linguistics partly because it was a broader and more congenial study, partly because it provided a rather better prospect of employment.

  JL


Amy West <medievalist at W-STS.COM> wrote:
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This question is raised purely by my own curiosity and other personal
reasons. Feel free to reply off-list.

For those of you teaching in English departments, I'm curious as to
whether you have a terminal degree in English or in Linguistics.

This query is prompted by my own professional/personal situation: I'm
at a point where if I want to get a PhD, I really should before I'm
too old (I may actually already be too old and just not know it yet).
A PhD in Linguistics from a "local" state school seems a possibility
to top off my MA in Medieval Studies (where I discovered my love for
dead Germanic languages) and a BA in English (which also included 4
years of German). There are no local colleges with Linguistics
departments, so the most likely situation is a position in an English
department. Hence my query.

---Amy West

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