We didn’t say it; she did: A doctoral candidate at the University of North Dakota recently published a research paper that argued one way to make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics more inclusive for women…
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Sexual Violence in the Military
In a presentation to a Modern Language Association (MLA) panel on sexual violence, Ariana Vigil, a women’s studies professor at North Carolina-Chapel Hill, linked a military deserter and his perspective on the military to the…
Bootstrapping Broads: Talking Feminism
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…
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…
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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’s Rejection of Diversity
There is an imbalance within academia, especially when it comes to politics: Scholarly studies have piled up showing that race and gender diversity in the workplace can increase creative thinking and improve performance. Meanwhile, excessive…
Students are Warned that Ripped, Cut Men Advance Unhealthy Masculinity
College Fix reported: That message and similar ones were conveyed recently to students during Vanderbilt University’s “Healthy Masculinities Week,” organized by the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center. Attendance for students was optional. The Vanderbilt week kicked…
Professors Argue Capitalism Punishes the Poor with Pollution in Environmental Justice Course
College Fix has the news: “This fall, the University of California-Riverside will begin offering a bachelor of science in sustainability and environmental justice.” “Marguerite Waller, professor and chair of the department of gender and sexuality…
Rutgers University Professor says Waco Biker Gang Shootout reflects White Privilege
This professor, Brittney Cooper, works at Rutgers as an associate professor in Women’s, Gender and Africana studies and this is what we get in her Salon.com column.
Ferguson Remembered
Universities are still trying to make a teachable moment out of the tragedy which occurred in Ferguson, Missouri last summer but considerably less so of the death of sidewalk vendor Eric Garner at the hands…