English studies: past - present - future

Contents: Wolfgang Zach: Introduction Silvia Albertazzi: English Studies in Italy: The (Western) Canon and After Klaus Bartenschlager: Vom Anglisten zum Literaturübersetzer: Erfahrungen und Überlegungen Walter Bernhart: Ruminations on the Study of English Literatur in Media Society Peter Bierbaumer: ESP (English for Specific Purposes) im Neuen Studienplan Leona F. Cordery: Back to the Future: A Defence of the Role of Medievalism in Literature and Cultural Studies in Language Teaching in the Present and Future Alwin Fill: English Linguistics in Austria around the Year 2000 Udo Fries: Studying - English Linguistics - in Switzerland Ben Hardwick: National Curriculum Reform - Obstacles and Possibilities Mirko Jurak: Teaching English Literature in Secondary Schools in Slovenia: Errors of Pragmatism Michael Kenneally: Irish Literary Studies: A Paradigm for the New Literatures in English? Franz Kroath - Karin Pietersteiner: The New Study Law (UniStg): A Chance for Innovating the Teacher Training Programme at Innsbruck University Harro H. Kühnelt: Englisches Latein Christian Mair: Is there a Future for the Humanities - and is it Digital? Andrew Skinner: Pre-service Teacher Education in TEFL: Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Innsburck University: a SWOT Analysis Carol Spöttl: TEAching and TEA: Testing, Evalution and Assessment Stephen Torre: The Return of the Text: Recent Developments in Australian Literary Criticism Gillian Whitlock: Re-engineering English Wolfgang Zach: English Literary Studies in the New Millenium? Problems and Solutions