Events, News Al Jazeera Makes an Appearance at the MLA Spencer Irvine January 29, 2015 Haidar Eid, an associate professor at al-Aqsa University in the Gaza Strip, who also has a blog with Al Jazeera,…
Events, News MLA Out of Touch with Reality Spencer Irvine January 28, 2015 At the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, Canada, the degree to which many professors are divorced from reality…
Events, News When MLA gets Religion Wrong Spencer Irvine January 27, 2015 When professors do pay attention to religion, they usually get it wrong. “Conservatives would rather have [social welfare] provided by…
Events, News Adjunct Professors Feel the Pinch at MLA Spencer Irvine January 26, 2015 Despite its claims of proletarian empathy, it turns out that the Modern Language Association (MLA) does not cut many breaks…
Events, News Remedial Radical Professors Spencer Irvine January 24, 2015 At the Modern Language Association’s 2015 convention in Vancouver, Canada, Susan O’Malley, currently an English professor at the City University…
Events, News MLA Ignores Victims of Communism Spencer Irvine January 23, 2015 The fall of communism and socialism have “robbed” the “post-Sovietized world,” Noemi Marin of Florida Atlantic University suggested at this…
Events, News VIDEO: #BlackLivesMatter Fizzles at the MLA Don Irvine The Black Lives Matter protest movement, found its way to the Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Vancouver, but failed…
Events, News American Slavery + Environmentalism + Cyberspace? Spencer Irvine January 20, 2015 “Atlantic Empiricisms” was the name of a panel discussion at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in Vancouver, Canada, and…
Events, News CIA Conspiracy Theorist at the MLA Spencer Irvine January 19, 2015 During the question and answer portion of one of the many panels at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in…
Events, News Mark Twain, the Colonist? Spencer Irvine January 18, 2015 Mark Twain falsely portrayed Hawaiians as behind the times, one professor concluded at the 2015 Modern Language Association convention in…
Events Camera-Shy Charles Dickens Spencer Irvine January 17, 2015 Charles Dickens was no fan of photographs, but that fact alone speaks volumes on the importance of visual media and…
Events, Perspectives Thank the Tribes, No, Literally Spencer Irvine January 16, 2015 In one of the oddest moments at Vancouver’s 2015 Modern Language Association convention, a moderator thanked the local Native Canadian…
