The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 15.1040 Tuesday, 11 May 2004
From: Cary DiPietro <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Tuesday, 11 May 2004 10:59:49 +0900
Subject: 15.1032 Seeking Enfants Terribles
Comment: RE: SHK 15.1032 Seeking Enfants Terribles
>'I am organizing a symposium for spring 2005 of "the six most important
>young scholars in the field of early modern English literature and
>culture."'
I'm curious to know what is an enfant terrible in academic circles: one
with the longest list of publications, one published by the best
journals and academic presses, one who has secured a tenure-track job at
a major research institution while still in their 20s, one whose
scholarship is innovative and challenges the status quo or, as I expect
is the case, one who is most likely to be recommended by a doyen of the
Shakespeare academic circuit?
Isn't there enough peer review and scrutiny in the career of a young
scholar (thesis examinations, publications, job interviews, conference
presentations) to make this kind of endeavour seem, well, banal?
In any case, I hope the results are also posted on SHAKSPER. Maybe then
we can solicit a major television network to produce 'Academic Idol',
and slowly eliminate those young scholars on the basis of their
scholarly shortcomings. That would be fun.
Cary DiPietro
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