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US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs. Elaine Showalter suggests they look elsewhere At the end of 1998 it would be tempting to accept the gloomy voices in academia that tell us that the...
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Who's been a bard dog, then..?
Mr Hooker, Shakespeare's mutt, tells his tale as animal autobiographies, queer Walter Scott, The Sound of Music and internet sex diaries all compete for the title of wackiest subject of academic...
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Colonial rule and school
Edward Said, next year's MLA president, recalls the colonial schools that have shaped his life and work The American academic Edward Said once wrote that the best schools of the British and French...
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Adventurers in the screen trade
The THES talks to PhDs who have forsaken the overhead projector for the bright lights of Hollywood When John Romano is cooking up stories for his television series Party of Five, kicking ideas around...
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A pilgrim's progess report
Novelist and academic David Lodge is best known for his satires of life in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. With a distinguished career at Birmingham University behind him, he is also one...
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Professors with sex on the brain
A Pilgrim's progress report Small World opens on the fictional Rummidge campus, hosting the dreary University Teachers of English Language and Literature conference. Persse McGarrigle, having just...
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Sex becomes a metaphor for life
A Pilgrim's progress report In David Lodge's Nice Work, Robyn Penrose, Cambridge graduate, has finally secured a poorly paid three-year lectureship in English literature at the University of Rummidge...
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Science's storyteller
He is a vocal atheist with a combative if not militant image, but few scientists have a larger audience than Richard Dawkins. He talks to Tony Durham. He does not pretend to be Charles Darwin, and he...
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Some sensory perception
Nancy Rothwell, the Royal Institution Christmas lecturer, tells Alison Goddard how her dad inspired her. The Christmas she was eight, Nancy Rothwell got more presents than ever before. Three months...
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The bottom line on perfect presents
Enterprising academics are turning specialisms and hobbies into Christmas gifts. Julia Hinde samples fruity perfumes and chessmen. Why did medieval ale-testers wear leather trousers, and which...
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Sex scandal has electoral impact
Conakry Claims that academics have sexually harassed students at Guinea's Universite Nationale have become a prominent issue in the run-up to the country's presidential elections next Monday. Thirty...
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Real crisis prompts strike two
Rio de Janeiro Brazil's university lecturers are threatening to resume their strike action - suspended during October's election campaign - in the new year, but are working extra hours unpaid to make...
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Students in exam time loop
Melbourne Sitting among his 500 peers at the University of Melbourne, the computing engineering student gazed at the final examination paper in horror. "Oh God!" he muttered. "This is just like the...
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Hong Kong
Two promising Chinese students will receive scholarships from the Hong Kong-based Hang Seng Bank to study at Ivy League universities in the United States this year. The scholarships cover the full...
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Copenhagen
Denmark is to open a Holocaust and genocide information and research centre next year. The centre will counter neo-Nazi claims that the Holocaust never occurred. The government plans to give DKr3...