IHE has a story, and UChicago biologist Jerry Coyne also comments.   Departments do have the right to choose what fields to emphasize in graduate admissions, but to limit admissions to a single subfield (is it even a subfield in English?) to make a political statement is irresponsible and is another data point for those skeptical that English is still a Wissenschaft.  Enzo Rossi's quip on Twitter was also good:  "How self-absorbed and self-important do you have to be to think this is going to make any difference to anything other than the careers of a couple of Ivy League scholars?"