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See, for instance, Catherine Liu's ‘American Intellectual Traditions: The Demand for Relevance and the Crisis of the Humanities’ (2008), one of several articles making up a recent Symposium on the relevance of the Humanities.
For the record I am senior faculty: I’ve been at California State University, Fresno, for 25 years, and hit minimum retirement age last year. Then again, I am also, I suppose, one of those Neo-Con-reviled tenured radicals infesting the Humanities. I will admit to being a working class Trades Unionist girl, to have flirted with feminist and Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender (LGBT)/queer identity politics, and to have fought in the trenches of the late twentieth-century Culture Wars. I am currently campus chapter President of the faculty union, too, so I dare say I must be some sort of (Old Style) social activist, if not the most virulent of troublemakers.
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Weston, L. What would Byrhtwold do?. Postmedieval 1, 372–379 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1057/pmed.2010.39
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