Who are our students reading? The shifting national landscape of post-secondary English

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Abstract

Amidst the current U.S. government’s slash and burn approach to DEI in education, we conducted a content analysis of the demographics of authors in U.S. college English courses. We analyzed course descriptions from post-secondary schools in eight states, asking: Who are college students reading in English class? How might their experiences differ across institution types? And how can we use current content analyses as a baseline to measure damage to diversity in education?

Authors

• Lena Phalen, Stanford University

• Sarah R Levine, Stanford University

• Nichole Misako Nomura, Stanford

• Emily Rainey, University of Pittsburgh

• Christopher Mah, Stanford University Graduate School of Education