Some Documents on “The State of the Profession”
Curricula	MLA matters	Varia
UMSL Faculty list, circa 1999	MLA Statistics, 2003; MLA Statistics, 2008; MLA Statistics, Historical	Menand on Eliot’s role in “professionalizing” literary study
UMSL English BA Requirements, 2008		Menand on Disciplines
UMSL English BA Requirements, 2018	MLA Statistics, comparative	Patterson on Literary History
	MLA Forums (formerly Divisions and Discussion Groups	Culler on Literature
Conferences and organizations	The MLA Convention in the NYTimes, 2004	Eagleton on Literature
The New Chaucer Society 2014 Congress Program	My Theoretical 2012 MLA Schedule	Baldick on the 1921 Newboldt Report
Intenational Congress on Medieval Studies program, 2017	My 2005 MLA Paper, “Comstock’s Chaucer”	“Play up! Play up!”
CFP website, UPenn		tenure
“Humanities Indicators” homepage		Donoghue on academia vs. business, c. 1910
English Department Web Pages Worldwide		Gerald Graff on why we have Cliffs Notes
the octopus		“The Economic Case for Saving the Humanities”