Every now and then you go to an academic conference and actually run across people who take close reading literally.
Articles By: Malcolm A. Kline
Monstrous Thesis @ MLA
It’s hard to say what is more astounding in academe: the projects academics get emotionally attached to or the odd disconnect their finished products have with reality.
Death of a Study
One of the ironies of the academic tendency to constantly renovate old disciplines is that yesterday’s modernists become today’s “Whatever became of?” question.
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Left-Wing Support Group
It’s odd watching a group of left-wing academics buck up each other’s spirits after they’ve encountered the cold, cruel world outside academe.
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MLA Hates Common Core
When education reforms are attacked by both the Left and Right, maybe both sides have a good point.
Autism Speaks & Articulately
One remarkable facet of disability studies: when the “disabled” actually speak, they do so with greater clarity and less jargon than those who would purport to study them.
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Superficial Diversity of MLA
When you get right down to it, the institutions that cry the loudest for diversity, particularly in academia, aren’t that diverse themselves.
Tracking Academic Bias Historically
Those of us who track academic bias have long been plagued by a nagging question: when did it start?
Ivied American Studies
Perhaps a former vice-presidential candidate was right when he said that there are two Americas. From what we’ve found, there is the one we live in, and the one that is studied in academia.
The Chattering Classes 2013
Academics say, and do, the darndest things. This year…