At the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Conference earlier this year, the Dickens Society partnered with the American Psychoanalytic Association to put on a panel entitled “Dickens and Psychoanalysis.”
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Graphic Aging at the MLA
With a title like “Graphic Aging,” one might think that such a panel at the 2011 Annual Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention was meant to discuss porn for the elderly.
Autism in Literature
One of the better lectures at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).
American Communism Revisited
Accuracy in Academia was recently contacted by University of Maryland at College Park English Instructor Kara Fontenot regarding my coverage of her 2008 Modern Language Association convention presentation, “American Hysteria, Civil Liberties, and the Literary Left: Langston Hughes and Lorraine Hansberry.”
Girl Studies
As reported earlier by Accuracy in Academia, Ohio State University Professor Rebecca Wanzo argued at last year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) convention that the practice of female genital circumcision [FGC] abroad was equivalent to the U.S. restricting funding to abortions in foreign countries.
Fostering Dissensus In Academia
At a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel on “The Future of Critical Exchange in Academe,” two professors discussed how to overcome conformism within the academic profession and foster critical conversations within the Humanities.
(Mis)Reading the Gospels
Is The Annunciation, a passage in the Bible where the angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary that she will bear the Christ, a “pro-choice feast”? That’s what Catholic feminist author Mary Gordon argued in a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) presentation entitled “Rereading Jesus.”
The Political Economy of Malthus
Those unfamiliar with the happenings at Modern Language Association (MLA) annual conventions might wonder why it is that Sarah Palin’s stance on sex education received mention during a panel on “Major Romantic Writers.”
Reading Between the Studies
David Kipen, representing the National Endowment for the Arts, travelled to this year’s Modern Language Association Convention to promote The Big Read, a NEA program which combats declining reading habits by enlisting members of the community to read a piece of literature simultaneously
McCarthy Unplugged
The academic antipathy toward Joe McCarthy was in full swing at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention.
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America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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