The university has been changing, to be sure. But has the proportion of students who want to devote themselves to acts of humanistic creativity?

Tess McNulty
Tess McNulty is a PhD candidate at Harvard, working in the areas of contemporary literature, internet studies, and the digital humanities. Her work, academic and otherwise, has appeared in venues like New Literary History, Cultural Analytics, and The Point.
Physical Books, Digital Lives
By Tess McNulty
“On or around December 1910,” Virginia Woolf famously said, “human character changed.” If my memories of December 2010 serve, that’s when social media ...
Chick Lit Meets the Avant-Garde
By Tess McNulty
Ask the average critic, professor, or reader to name an experimental novelist and they will more likely name a man—Pynchon, DeLillo, Foster Wallace—than a woman—Tillman, Winterson, Lessing. Ask them ...