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Leicester University denies it is dropping Chaucer for being 'too white' after proposing modules on race and sexuality instead
By Dan Sales and Ross Ibbetson
The Daily Mail (21 January 2021)
- University courses featuring The Canterbury Tales and Beowulf are under threat
- English department told of plans for a 'decolonised' curriculum via email
- Leicester today moved to deny Chaucer course was axed for being 'too white'
- But added that it wanted its teaching to cater to the students' own interests
By DAN SALES and ROSS IBBETSON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:13 EDT, 21 January 2021 | UPDATED: 16:58 EDT, 21 January 2021
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9171987/Leicester-University-denies-dropping-Chaucer-white-proposals.html
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Asked to comment on this new development, Professor Mallory Thomas of St. John's Wood College told Tim Kieffer of NBS News (Independent), "Anyone who uses the word 'module' in any context, but particularly the pedagogic one, and particularly in England, the land of the Mother Tongue, should be required to recite the first dozen lines of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English and made to perform 248 hours of community service defined strictly by the archaic league of gentlemen on penalty of imprisonment in Borstal."