If the Modern Language Association (MLA) had done to Moby Dick what they did to Herman Melville, Captain Ahab might have kept his leg.
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Reconstructing Twain @ MLA
Every now and then you go to an academic conference and actually run across people who take close reading literally.
Monstrous Thesis @ MLA
It’s hard to say what is more astounding in academe: the projects academics get emotionally attached to or the odd disconnect their finished products have with reality.
MLA’s Anti-Israeli Panel Goes Ballistic
In one of the better attended panel discussions, the MLA’s panel on academic boycott of Israeli universities was contentious and one-sided.
Common Core Besieged @ MLA
Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, presented a defense of Common Core after author and educator Diane Ravitch strongly criticized the federal education curriculum.
MLA Hates Common Core
When education reforms are attacked by both the Left and Right, maybe both sides have a good point.
Anti-War Movement Found @ MLA
Many have wondered what happened to the anti-war movement since President Bush left office. We think we found it, at the Modern Language Association (MLA).
MLA doing Iran’s Bidding
Although the title of a panel at the Modern Language Association indicated it would be a forum for dissident Iranian artists, the panelists made few claims that the dictatorship there might dispute.
Flawed History @ MLA
Perhaps one of the unfortunate byproducts of the lumping together of English and History under the rubric “Humanities” is that English professors start to think of themselves as historians. When they try to be, they prove that they are not.
Zero Dark Thirty @ the MLA
The MLA held a panel discussion on American torture policy, according to comic books and popular movies like Zero Dark Thirty or V for Vendetta.