Like many humanists, when I graduated with my bachelor’s in English, I started searching for a way to justify my choice to pursue the humanities. Sure, I’ve developed “habits of mind” such as “openness” and “creativity,” a couple of the more “marketable” qualities I developed from my minor in writing studies—qualities that are as undoubtedly as important as they are problematically vague. Yet, in the conceptually opaque value system of a humanities education, it seems that empathy reigns supreme. Now, many years later, as an instructor in a college of liberal arts, I’m encouraged to pass on what I’ve learned to my students,…
Author: Brown and Hubbell
Andrew Appleton Pine
Ryan Brown is an English lecturer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville whose academic and research interests include ecocomposition, environmentalist rhetoric, and ecocriticism. Gaines Hubbell is an assistant professor and WPA at the University of Alabama in Huntsville where he researches the history of rhetoric and video game criticism.