Posted on March 03, 2023

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In response to an essay in the Atlantic titled “The End of the English Major”, there’s been a gust of activity on social media–especially Twitter–promoting the English major and its value. In particular, the hashtag #Iwasanenglishmajor has produced thousands of responses from former majors, most along the lines of “#IwasanEnglishMajor and now I’m VP of media sales,” “#IwasanEnglishMajor and became an editor at Elle, Glamour, and Essence magazine,” “#IwasanEnglishMajor and now I’m a composer and concert violinist.”

Below are some tweets that we believe are extremely valuable to any English major.

tweet from NEHgov account reading "What are you going to do with that?" -a podcast from @HumanitiesAll exploring everyday folks' decisions to study the humanities and their pathways to fulfilling careers at studythehumanities.org/podcast
tweet from NEHgov account reading "The humanities teach students to recognize a significant question, to make crucial distinctions in the articulation of its terms, to draw consequential conclusions." -R. Howard Bloch