‘It’s Best to Leave This Constructive Ambiguity in Place!’: The Evaluation of Research in Literary Studies
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The establishment of a career structure for huge numbers of university employees dependent upon publication of 'research' in the humanities, and the modelling of that research upon the sciences, has resulted in a massive increase in the number of articles, reviews, and notes appearing annually in journals, edited collections, annotated editions, online comments and academic talks.The introduction in certain countries of national assessments of the research produced in specific subjects, on which crucial funding decisions depend, has further increased the quantity of what we have learned to call 'outputs'… Given the vast resources, institutional and individual, now being devoted to this global activity, the question of value becomes unavoidable.( 250)Attridge's contribution to the collection has a specific focus on the nature and value of the literary experience and he is quite clear on what he is not trying to do: I am not attempting to address the huge question of the deformation produced by the widespread imposition of the scientific model or the overproduction resulting from the professional demands of promotion
Source: Australian Literary Studies
Authors: Maggie Nolan, Agata Mrva-Montoya, Rebekah Ward
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4387468393