Title Futures for English studies : teaching language, literature and creativity in higher education / edited by Ann Hewings, the Open University, UK ; Lynda Prescott, the Open University, UK ; Philip Seargeant, the Open University, UK

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: Futures for English Studies; Lynda Prescott, Ann Hewings and Philip SeargeantSECTION A THE SHAPE OF THE DISCIPLINE1. English Pasts, English Futures; Ronald Carter 2. Discipline or Perish: English at the Tipping Point and Styles of Thinking in the Twenty First Century; Patricia Waugh 3. The Rise of Creative Writing; Andrew Cowan 4. English Language Studies: A Critical Appraisal; Ann Hewings and Philip SeargeantSECTION B INTERNATIONAL DIMENSIONS5. TESOL and the Discipline of English; John Gray 6. English Studies in Indian Higher Education; Suman Gupta 7. The Role of Policy in Shaping English as a University Subject in Denmark; Anna Kristina Hultgren 8. The Literary and the Literate: The Study and Teaching of Writing in US English Departments; David R. RussellSECTION C EMERGING TRENDS9. Digital Humanities and The Future of English; Marilyn Deegan and Matthew Hayler 10. The Contribution of Children's Literature Studies; Dena Attar and Janet Maybin11. On Collaborating with Shakespeare's Globe: Reflections on the Future of Postgraduate English; Gordon McMullan 12. English Language Studies from Rhetoric to Applied English; Peter Stockwell13. Interdiscipline English! A Series of Provocations and Projections; Rob Pope Summary Futures for English Studies examines the value and purpose of teaching and researching English language, literature and creative writing in the twenty-first century, both within Anglophone countries and the wider world. The book brings together chapters by leading scholars across the curriculum area of English to investigate how the component parts of English (literature, language and creative writing) are located institutionally in higher education, and to explore the interdisciplinary prospects of a subject which spans the humanities and social sciences. The contributors, all practicing educators and researchers in the field, bring a wide range of perspectives to the theme of the development of the discipline, and illustrate that the strengths of English Studies as an academic subject lie not only in its traditional breadth and depth, but also in a readiness to adapt, experiment, and engage with other subjects.<Ann Hewings is Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics and English language at the Open University, UK. She teaches and researches on disciplinary variation and academic writing, and computer mediated academic communication. She is the series editor for Worlds of English and co-editor of the book, The Politics of English: Conflict, Competition, Co-existence (2012). Lynda Prescott is Senior Lecturer and former Head of the Department of English at the Open University, UK. She is editor of A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents (2008) and author of articles and book chapters on writers from Dickens to Pat Barker. She has written Open University teaching materials on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and has a particular interest in interdisciplinary studies. Philip Seargeant is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, The Open University, UK. He is author of The Idea of English in Japan: Ideology and the Evolution of a Global Language (2009), Exploring World Englishes: Language in a Global Context (2012), and From Language to Creative Writing (with Bill Greenwell, 2013), and editor of English in Japan in the Era of Globalization (2011) and English in the World: History, Diversity, Change (with Joan Swann, 2012) Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 18, 2016) Subject English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) Creative writing & creative writing guides. Higher & further education, tertiary education. Language: history & general works. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- General. Creative thinking -- Study and teaching (Higher) English language -- Study and teaching (Higher) Form Electronic book Author Hewings, Ann, editor Prescott, Lynda, 1948- editor. Seargeant, Philip, editor ISBN 9781137431806 1137431806

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