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…
Topic: MLA
Ecologically Correct: It’s Academic!
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…
Academic Animal Studies/Farm
George Orwell might have been amused. Academia is well on its way to quite literally becoming Animal Farm. Indeed, the very first day of the latest Modern Language Association (MLA) convention featured a panel on…
Rock, Paper, Scissors
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…
Trapped by Modern Language
Every year we hit the road to find out what English Departments are up to at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention and always come back depressed. A look at some of the panels we…
Academia Ignores Best-Selling Authors C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien
Two authors who collectively have sold hundreds of millions of copies of their books decades after their deaths receive scant attention in academia. C.S. Lewis, according to Publisher’s Weekly, had sold 18 million copies by 2013….
Al Jazeera Makes an Appearance at the MLA
Haidar Eid, an associate professor at al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip, who also has a blog with Al Jazeera, pre-recorded his remarks to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada. Eid apologized…
MLA Out of Touch with Reality
At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality was brought into sharp focus. Few panels at the conference that draws thousands of English…
When MLA gets Religion Wrong
When professors do pay attention to religion, they usually get it wrong. “Conservatives would rather have [social welfare] provided by religious organizations, which is incompatible with other aspects of Catholic social teaching,” Robin Sowards, an…
Adjunct Professors Feel the Pinch at MLA
Despite its claims of proletarian empathy, it turns out that the Modern Language Association (MLA) does not cut many breaks to those struggling within its ranks. At the MLA’s annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada this…
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
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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