Paul Jay

Paul Jay, Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago Jay teaches literary and critical theory at Loyola University Chicago.

Posted by Paul Jay , Professor, Department of English at Loyola University Chicago on March 18, 2009 at 10:45am EDT
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Posted by Paul Jay , Professor, Department of English at Loyola University Chicago on March 18, 2009 at 12:15pm EDT
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Paul Jay believes that humanities research does, indeed, enhance classroom instruction.
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Posted by Paul Jay , Professor, Department of English at Loyola University Chicago on March 18, 2009 at 1:00pm EDT

Mark Bauerlein writes "Paul Jay believes that humanities research does, indeed, enhance classroom instruction.
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Paul Jay has it right - students need to access the scholarship the experts who are presumably teaching them are producing.
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Paul Jay's vision of freshmen and sophomores reading literary criticism and theory doesn't quite square with any broad assessment that I know of.
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3) lack of student engagement is directly related to faculty spending too much time on research (false: as Paul Jay has already indicated, lack of student engagement--which is a real problem-- is attributable to an array of complex cultural and social issues that can hardly be parsed through the narrow lens of trading research time for class preparation time or time for talking with students.

by Paul Jay - Loyola University Chicago
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Paul Jay Loyola University Chicago

(Photo courtesy of Paul Jay)
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(Photo courtesy of Paul Jay)
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Paul Jay, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago who maintained a detailed Web log during the trip said, "I'm struck by how the world I live in and enjoy is inextricably tied to the problems I've been exposed to in India.That's pretty sobering."Paul Jay's blog can be found at http://www.profpjayindia.blogspot.com.

The English department alone has slid from roughly 36 faculty members six years ago to 22 today , said Paul Jay , an English professor and president of the Loyola chapter of the American Association of University Professors.

We can't bring it back to where it was before , but we do have to pay more attention to the impact the loss of faculty has had on individual departments and programs and see where we need to fill some gaps , Jay said.

Some faculty members also argued the enrollment increase wasn't as big of a boost as some might think.The university has to work harder on retention , as roughly 17 percent of freshmen decide not to return sophomore year.There is also the question of how the university will address the need to restructure programs while maintaining academic quality in tough financial times.

Paul Jay, Professor of English, Loyola University Chicago Jay specializes in contemporary literary and critical theory.

In this latest issue of Detours, read about how examining geographical borders has reshaped literary studies in "Border Studies: Re-mapping the Humanities," by Loyola University Professor Paul Jay; explore the shifting borders of Chicago's neighborhoods in historian Dominic Pacyga's article, "Chicago's Neighborhood Borders;" and discover "The Borders of Southern Illinois," by reading Kay Rippelmeyer-Tippy's reflections on the place she calls home.