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…
Topic: MLA 2016
Getting to Know Goethe
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…
Aging at the MLA
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….
PHOTOS: Book Gallery at the Left-Wing MLA
We took a look around the exhibit hall at the convention center, where left-wing professors talked to book publishers and looked for the latest books to buy. This is what we saw:
From Stalinist Russia, With Love
In Stalinist Russia, they had a love-hate relationship with the United States: Stalin hated it but the writers he dispatched to the U. S. on investigatory trips got to rather like it. Ilya Ilf and…
Disabling Dickens
Truly, some authors are just too important to be left to academia. Charles Dickens is one of them. Yet and still, the Modern Language Association (MLA), at its annual conventions, regularly tries to modernize the…
MLA Deconstructs Middle East
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,…
Patchwork Girl @ the MLA
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…
Good News for English Majors, Sort Of
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…
PHOTO GALLERY: Leftist Professors Protest Texas Campus Carry
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.
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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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