I'm another ex-academic, but one whose PhD was on American
crime fiction. In English departments here crime fiction
courses also tend to be taught by specialists in other areas
who have always had an interest in crime fiction but for
whatever reason didn't start out there. In Britain at least
the academic job market means that although there are now
people coming through with PhDs in crime they tend to get
passed over in favour of more
"traditional" grad students - the market is so bad that there
are almost no jobs at the bottom in any subject anyway. And I
speak from experience. I was once asked at an interview for a
job at a prestigious Scottish university "And are you also
interested in Great Books?" This in the aftermath of a
discussion of an article of mine on Borges.
Cheers Chris
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