FOREWORD
by MARC BOUSQUET
"The degree holder is the waste product of a job system that produces Ph.D. holders but does not use them. In language and literature more than any other field the teaching machine runs on non-degreed labor...."

What Hath English Wrought
by CARY NELSON
"As I sit at my computer thinking about the future of higher education, I have before me the final version of a collaborative document with its stunned, startled gaze fixed on the past. It is the Modern Language Association's report from its Committee on Professional Employment, issued in December 1997. The astonished gaze its collective author casts on recent history suggests the windswept visage of a profession no longer in control of its fate. Eyes bulging, the figure is nearly swept away by forces it cannot comprehend. In stark terror at their oncoming fury, it dares not turn to glimpse their destination...."