Description: Weighs the value of Germanophone culture, and its study, in an age of globalization, transnationalism, and academic change.
Brief description: James Hodkinson is Reader in German at Warwick University.
Review Quotes: This interesting volume of essays seeks to address a crisis that has been unfolding in German studies, indeed in modern language studies generally, for at least four decades. . . . Hodkinson and Schofield bring together some responses to the challenges German studies face . . . reflect[ing] the current concerns about diversity and widening inclusivity, de-colonizing the curriculum, de-centring the field and liberation from the straightjacket of the canon. . . . De-centering, de-colonizing, seeking to remedy social and other forms of exclusion through scholarship and teaching are admirable aims. . . . The questions Hodkinson and Schofield have raised are certain to be debated for some time.--Joachim Whaley "JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES"