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From the College Fix: That’s why it’s troubling those advocates to see how the University of Texas-Austin is attempting to turn a neutral institution – its campus police – into an advocate for one party. Its new “blueprint,” flagged by Inside Higher Ed, tells campus police to conduct worseinvestigations. UT-Austin’s Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual […]

The open carry law, which went into effect this year, also allows campus carry on all public universities. The University of Texas-Austin president says he’ll comply, but one would think he’ll be looking for loopholes.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) gave new meaning to the term “in-depth study” at the annual MLA convention in Austin, Texas in January. “What Crime and Punishment is really about is aberrant male sexuality and matricide,” Northwestern University professor Susan McReynolds claimed in an MLA panel on “Reading Dostoyevsky, Dostoyevsky Reading.” Gee, Amazon only tells […]

Occasionally you can actually learn about classic authors at the Modern Language Association (MLA). Attended by thousands of English professors from around the world, too often the MLA emphasizes the “Modern” part of their acronym in their annual meetings at the expense of the classical. Yet and still, there was at least one exception at […]

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. Thus, after a couple of days at one of these annual meet-ups, you find yourself uttering sentences such as, “We […]

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, Christian Haines, an assistant professor of English at Dartmouth, tried to link the shooting of aggressive shoplifter Michael Brown in […]

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 Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting in Austin, Texas. “Critical aging lifts the hood on dominance.” At the MLA, Mattingly used […]

When thousands of English professors gathered in Austin, Texas earlier this month for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention, they were rather pessimistic about the future of their profession, with one small but notable caveat. “English majors do go on to a variety of jobs but do not become baristas,” Robert Matz, of George […]

Scroll down for all the photos taken of the Modern Language Association (MLA) protest of Texas’s campus carry law in downtown Austin, Texas, where legal firearms can be carried onto the grounds of public universities.

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 Ropp of the University of Texas at Austin said at an MLA panel on “The Profane West.” She cited the […]

At the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this year held in Austin, Texas, leftist language professors marched to the State Capitol in downtown Austin to voice their opposition with the state’s newest campus carry laws (where it is legal to carry a legal firearm on public university grounds). Assembling in the hotel conference center before […]

The Modern Language Association (MLA) is obsessive over Steven Salaita’s firing at the University of Illinois, demonstrated by a panel session entitled, “Salaita, Academic Freedom, and the Question of Palestine: Where Do We Go from Here?” at their annual convention held this year in Austin, Texas. Warrior, a Native American director of American Indian Studies […]