Department of English University of Pittsburgh

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Department of English
University of Pittsburgh

• CID Leadership Team Members Eric Clarke, David
  Bartholomae, Don Bialostoski, Paul Bové, Steven
  Carr, Lucy Fischer, Kathryn Flannery, Kate
  Johnson, Ronald Judy, Valerie Krips, Marcia
  Landy, Adam Lowenstein, Richard Purcell, Jim
  Seitz, John Twyning, Stefan Wheelock

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Cultural and Critical Studies at Pitt

• The Department at a Glance
• Structural Changes
• Curricular Changes
• Faculty Advising
• Research and Teaching Field
• The PhD Project

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Guiding Questions

• What role can cultural and critical studies
  have in shaping the future of English studies?
• What should constitute a comprehensive
  examination?
• What intellectual and political contexts should
  inform our assessments?
• What engagements beyond academia can we foster?

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Deliberations

• Larger contexts and programmatic assessment
• Target sites for discussion and innovation
• Scholarship and methodologies
• Ongoing discussion on the intellectual mission(s)
  of English studies