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Third Man Remembered @ MLA
Occasionally, you can actually learn something from the Modern Language Association (MLA) but it may not necessarily be about literature.
Civil War Remembered @ MLA
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) conclave of English professors that took place in Seattle this month, a panel on poetry from the War Between the States featured a handout of a Union song parody housed at Baylor University which lampoons Confederacy president Jefferson Davis.
Young Adult’s Literature @ the MLA
Seattle, WA—One of the alarming trends exposed at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting is the degree to which cutting is featured prominently in young adult’s literature.
Queer Translations @ The MLA
Seattle, WA— The latest Chronicle Review posits the question, ““The End of Queer Theory?” but the question may be premature. This year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting featured about as many panels on “Gay Studies in Literature and Language as last year’s.
Occupy the MLA
Seattle, WA— At the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual meeting last week, English professor Joseph Ramsey pretty much said that when college activists in the faculty and the student body are finished hibernating, they will go back to doing the one thing that we know collegiates for decades have been trained to do—protest.
MLA Preview
As is our custom here at Accuracy in Academia, we are kicking off the new year by bonding with thousands of English professors from around the country and around the world at the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention.
MLA Job Security Angst
When the Modern Language Association, America’s largest association of English professors, demonstrates a sudden concern for the rising debt level of college students as they did in a recent issue of Inside Higher Education, these sentiments bear closer scrutiny.
Queer Ecology @ The MLA
A panel on “Queer Ecology” was featured at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Queer Studies @ the MLA
While those casually aware of the Modern Language Association (MLA) might assume that a panel on “Queer Studies and the Future of the Profession” would deal primarily with LGBTQ issues, this year, those people would be wrong.