Association of Departments of English

American professional organization

The Association of Departments of English (ADE) is an American professional organization under the auspices of the Modern Language Association.

The ADE was founded by Warner Rice (then English chair at the University of Michigan), with the cooperation of John Hurt Fisher, then Executive Secretary of the MLA. Rice wished to create a forum in which English department administrators could share information; by 1995 more than a thousand English departments had joined the organization.[1] The MLA later added an Association of Departments of Foreign Languages, with a similar aim,[2] though Eugene Eoyang argued, in Coat of Many Colors (1996), that ethnocentrism is the only reason for the existence of dual organizations.[3]

Its annual journal, the ADE Bulletin, publishes "articles and surveys dealing with professional, pedagogical, curricular, and departmental issues" for "English educators, scholars, and administrators in postsecondary institutions".[4] Faculty members of member departments have access to the MLA's Job Information List.[5] In 1985 it published A Checklist and Guide for Reviewing Departments of English, which provided information and ways to (self-)evaluate departments.[6]

## References

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1. ^ Neel, Jasper (1995). "The degradation of rhetoric; or, dressing like a gentleman, speaking like a scholar". In Steven Mailloux (ed.). Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism. Cambridge UP. pp. 61–81\. ISBN 9780521467803. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
2. ^ Kezar, Adrianna J. (2008). Rethinking Leadership in a Complex, Multicultural, and Global Environment: New Concepts and Models for Higher Education. Stylus. p. 217\. ISBN 9781579222826.
3. ^ Eoyang, Eugene (1996). Coat of Many Colors: Reflections on Diversity by a Minority of One. Beacon Press. p. 35\. ISBN 9780807004210.
4. ^ "ADE Bulletin". Association of Departments of English. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2015.
5. ^ Vick, Julia Miller; Furlong, Jennifer S. (2013). The Academic Job Search Handbook. U of Pennsylvania P. p. 278\. ISBN 9780812209440.
6. ^ Brod, Richard (1987). "Professionalism in Academic Programs". In Marilyn Gaddis Rose (ed.). Translation Excellence: Assessment, Achievement, Maintenance. John Benjamins. pp. 27–29\. ISBN 9789027231765.

## External links

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* Official website