Students learn to approach great works of art cynically before they learn to admire them, before they know why they are great works. They sit in judgement. So, it's turned out to be, in that, very anti-intellectual. I think it's used as an excuse to withhold great works of literature from students. So they are often reading the series instead of the works, which is very sad.
Contemporary feminism is tied up in just about every grim fad.
So yes we've had the new historisists, deconstruction, and then somewhere out of all of this , identity politics. It's just spinning out of control. It's as if none of these victim groups grew stable. Going nowhere fast. I don't want to say that it's impossible because scholars can surprise you and teach you something even if they have a twisted perspective.