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#GamerGate and feminism in gaming were the subjects of a paper at a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel at their annual convention, held this year in Austin, Texas. Anastasia Salter, an assistant professor of digital media at the University of Central Florida (UCF), said that gaming is “about silencing women.” She noted, correctly, that […]

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 a home for red state conservatives. J.C. “Jay” Sibara, an assistant professor of English at Colby College (Maine), claimed that […]

A panel of professors at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this time held in Austin, Texas, argued about feminism and sexism in today’s young adult (YA) novels in “The Hunger Games” and other similar dystopian novels. Erin Kingsley, an associate professor of English at King University (Tennessee), started her remarks proclaiming her love for […]

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 obscure academic subjects and are indoctrinating America’s future leaders. What do they discuss? Topics such as: Black Lives Matter and anti-police […]

After the widespread and unexpected popularity of the ‘Serial’ podcast, where a team of journalists review an old criminal case and interview the imprisoned suspect and other witnesses, academics are wondering whether they could use this medium to spread their own stories. In a panel session at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, which was […]

In the Lone Star State, where open carry is now legal in public places, the Modern Language Association thought it was timely to protest guns on public college campuses, called “campus carry” by advocates and opponents alike. The language professors were in Austin, Texas for their annual convention and set aside time in their busy […]

The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) new punching bag is due process, as one session in their annual convention demonstrated (The convention was held in Austin, Texas this year.) In the session, entitled, “Narrating College Sexual Assault,” Donna Potts, a creative writing professor at Washington State, shared her own experience as a young college freshman who […]

Harriet Beecher Stowe, European gardens and gender bias were discussed in a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel at their annual convention held this year in Austin, Texas. The panel, entitled, “Bootstrapping Broads: On the Work of Writing Labor.” Gretchen Murphy, a professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin, spoke at length about Harriet […]

It’s interesting that although liberals are the ones who most like to talk about protecting the environment, conservatives are the ones most likely to do yard work. “There is a conflict between the politics of freedom and environmental activism,” Jana Maria Giles said at the Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting in Austin, Texas last week. […]

It’s interesting that some of the same people who go ballistic at the suggestion that corporations are people are quite willing to ascribe human attributes to inhuman things.  “I’m out to prove that rocks are alive and humans are not,” Simon Porzak, a writing instructor at Columbia said at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention […]

At the Heritage Foundation on the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, two law professors gave a preview of the second Fisher v. Texas decision, which was again before the U.S. Supreme Court. Vanderbilt Law’s own James Blumstein and the University of California-San Diego’s Gail Heriot gave background on the court case. Blumstein said that the University […]

A group called College Rank has helpfully compiled a list of colleges with the best leisure pools in academe, some replete with lazy rivers. “Recreational facilities and amenities have become a major part of the appeal of college campuses around the country,” Mackenzi Flannery, the article’s author says. “Our list highlights some of the top […]