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In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a discussion, four female professors went over their papers on feminist, queer and disability theory (the latter known as “crip” theory in academic slang). Rachel Adams, an English and comparative literature professor at Columbia, lauded the […]

Charles Dickens was no fan of photographs, but that fact alone speaks volumes on the importance of visual media and literature, according to a panel of professors at the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada this month. Susan Cook, an associate professor of English at Southern New Hampshire University, called photographs a “counterfeit” […]

At 90 and counting, a feminine conservative icon is sharper than feminists who are half her age, particularly the ones who teach in college.  ““What they do is make women believe they are victims of the patriarch, and they are trying to abolish the patriarchy,” Schlafly told Anne Reed of the AFA Journal. “That is […]

If you love literature, you might find it easier to actually buy it than take a course in it.

He felt that he was “the Rip Van Winkle of the sustainability group” at the MLA and mentioned that twenty years ago, this was an issue at the MLA’s annual convention.

To commemorate the liberal Modern Language Association (MLA) conference, here is a summary in the form of 13 tweets! Enjoy! 1. The elevators took too long to get people places! Even if stairs are within a couple of feet away! 2. Low standards for MLA panel attendance 3. Pictures of your book at an academic […]

The panel, titled “MOOCs, Boutique Subjects, and Marginal Approaches,” featured five college professors who expressed fear for the future of their humanities departments and courses because of the introduction of MOOCs, mostly from a feminist perspective.

At the MLA session, “Online Innovations: From Distance Learning to MOOC Madness,” professors from Carnegie Mellon, Rochester and Utah addressed a myriad of concerns about MOOCs.

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.

Professors from Stanford, Brigham Young University and University of Colorado at Boulder claimed that massive open online courses, known as MOOCs, are not a threat to their profession, while simultaneously showing their colleagues how they could get in on the action.

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.

There is an interesting split on the Left over the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms.