While you’re getting started on your New Year’s resolutions, we’re knocking one off of our own bucket list: We’ll be kicking off 2017 with our friends at the Modern Language Association (MLA) at their annual…
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Federalizing the MLA
Colleges and universities are forever feeling shortchanged by taxpayers. They needn’t worry. For one thing, they are far richer than those of us who actually pay federal levies. For another, academia has succeeded in securing…
Aging at the MLA
One way in which the world’s largest conclave of English professors—the Modern Language Association (MLA)—lives up to its name is to leave attendees at its annual conferences with a new vocabulary that they cannot shake….
The MLA Alphabetically
See how English professors interpret the alphabet in the latest issue of Accuracy in Academia’s monthly Campus Report newsletter.
PHOTOS: Book Gallery at the Left-Wing MLA
We took a look around the exhibit hall at the convention center, where left-wing professors talked to book publishers and looked for the latest books to buy. This is what we saw:
MLA Deconstructs Middle East
When the Modern Language Association (MLA) deconstructs something, it stays scrambled. Thousands of English professors attend the annual MLA conferences and just about every English Department is represented there. At this year’s meeting in Austin,…
Patchwork Girl @ the MLA
Growing old is hard enough without a cadre of pedagogues telling you what it means. “Critical aging does not toss the baby out with its ideological bathwater,” LaSalle professor Emily Mattingly said at this year’s…
MLA Creates a New Word and World, Apparently
Somewhat true to its name, the Modern Language Association (MLA) has transformed the word “imaginary” from an adjective into a noun. “In the dominant United States imaginary, some children are more sacred than others,” Sarah…
MLA Stylebook: Capitalism Punishes the Disabled Poor
Capitalism discriminates against the poor and disabled, one professor said during a panel entitled, “Disability and the Global South” at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention. This year, it was held in Austin, Texas, hardly…
MLA Archives
The Modern Language Association (known as MLA) gathers annually in a liberal city of their choice early in the month of January. These professors, graduate students and PhD candidates specialize in language, literature and many…