The English major on college campuses is dying, but English majors remain alive and well.
It is completely possible to live a fulfilling existence under the quiet oppression of mediocrity. Most people do, and it’s fine. There’s plenty of perfectly enjoyable TV, perfectly acceptable literature, perfectly OK music out there. If you’re not already worried about it, don’t worry about it!
There is a strong chance that the quiet English degree-bearer in your life has already read the piece by Nathan Heller, who rousted several bewildering quotes from top-level Harvard academics. Famed literary professor Stephen Greenblatt mused that watching “Better Call Saul” might be a “contemporary form of very deep absorption of the kind comparable to literary study.
It’s a strange feeling to be an endangered species. I was an English major at the University of Missouri, where, in one of the miracles of the American way of life, I attended humanities classes where farm kids and St. Louis frat brothers got bludgeoned with healthy slugs of Homer, Cervantes, Hildegard of Bingen and the Quran.
In fact, apart from highly technical fields like engineering, the salaries of humanities graduates tend to run pretty close to average. The stats seem to show that as long as you pick up a bachelor’s degree in, you’re likely to end up much better paid than a mere high school graduate, which is indicative of other problems with our whole setup.
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