I went to school in the '90s. And I count a few of them amongst my freinds. Remember this is good old fashioned 'English'...not Woman's Studies or Queer theory Studies. Perhaps people involved with those other departments (who have connections to Lit Departments of course) would say differently. I went to a small state school. Perhaps the radicals are at the Ivy League schools? Though people I studied with studied with people like Stanley Fish who I don't regard as a radical.
I when to school in the 60's and the 70's,. I was an academic for about a decade in the Ivys (plus Ivy level tech schools - Cal tech, MIT.) I worked in quite a few academic and industrial "think tanks."
My take on it is much different than yours.
Also, I certainly regard Fish as a radical. I find that an odd comment for that is precisely what he made his "reputation" on. I find him loathsome: he has done much damage.
Still, if there are folks like you around there is hope. I often wonder how we will turn this around: The ranks of the knowledgeable are thinning. It is are bring in crop when the cane is in the field.