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At what point does a graphic novel become pornographic? The English Departments that assign them don’t seem to care.

Generations of us who learned that rhyme never dreamed that brown bovines had a direct connection to chocolate milk.

No, anti-Israel critics, Israel is not like apartheid South Africa, contends English professor Cary Nelson.

What are the roots of the anti-Israel BDS movement? An English professor, Cary Nelson, dives into that question in his book, “Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict & the Movement to Boycott Israel.”

In our latest visit to the Modern Language Association, we discover, once again, that if you love literature, you may want to avoid most English courses.

Several college professors picked apart Jane Austen, who would have turned 200 years old this year. In a packed room full of female attendees at the Modern Language Association (MLA), the professors criticized Jane Austen’s “whiteness” in her writing and how post-Trump, people can turn to Austen’s readings to escape from reality. Mary Favret, an […]

A panel of college professors claimed that Herman Melville’s books can be applied to today’s issues of Black Lives Matter, America’s capitalist society and the presidency of Donald Trump. The panel discussion was held at the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) annual convention in Philadelphia earlier this year. Gary Vaughn Rasberry, an assistant professor of English […]

A panel of college professors memorialized Black Lives Matter and the movement’s icons, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray. At the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) annual conference in Philadelphia, these professors praised Black Lives Matter’s activism and criticized police officers. Ashley Perez, an Ohio State associate professor of comparative studies, mentioned she had to rewrite her […]

The Modern Language Association held a panel discussion of professors who were critical of Zionism and Israel and sympathetic of the Palestinian effort to create a Palestinian state. The four professors focused on the origins of the Balfour Declaration and the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. Nabil Matar, a professor of English, History […]

Here’s why good Supreme Court justices, or, for that matter, attorneys in general, let alone attorneys general, are going to keep getting harder to find: Law schools going the way of the Modern Language Association (MLA). “The tendency toward designing a curriculum to suit the interests and eccentricities of law professors can be seen in […]

Eco-terrorism, which has caused tens of millions of dollars in property damage over several decades, was the focus of a recent panel discussion at the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) held in Philadelphia early this year. Cal-State Fullerton assistant professor of English, Nicole Seymour, discussed an eco-terrorist cult classic movie “Silent Running,” claiming that eco-terrorism […]

At the Modern Language Association, one panel of professors discussed a thirty-year-old book and one professor encouraged the Left to stick together in a post-Donald Trump America. Christopher Castiglia, a Penn State professor specializing in English, Women’s and Gender Studies, went overtly political with some of his remarks during his panel. He warned that “The […]