MLA, Perspectives ‘The Hunger Games’ is Sexist, says Professor Spencer Irvine January 21, 2016 A panel of professors at the Modern Language Association’s annual convention, this time held in Austin, Texas, argued about feminism…
MLA, Perspectives Academics Try to Interpret ‘Serial’ Podcast Spencer Irvine January 20, 2016 After the widespread and unexpected popularity of the ‘Serial’ podcast, where a team of journalists review an old criminal case…
MLA, Perspectives Bootstrapping Broads: Talking Feminism Spencer Irvine January 15, 2016 Harriet Beecher Stowe, European gardens and gender bias were discussed in a recent Modern Language Association (MLA) panel at their…
Perspectives Trapped by Modern Language Malcolm A. Kline November 20, 2015 Every year we hit the road to find out what English Departments are up to at the Modern Language Association…
Faculty Lounge It’s Hard to be a Teacher under Common Core Spencer Irvine November 12, 2015 Common Core hurts English language learners, as this piece in the Washington Post refers to.
Perspectives The Decline of English Departments Spencer Irvine September 13, 2015 The John William Pope Center’s Jay Schalin recently published a report detailing the decline of America’s college English departments. More…
Perspectives Immigration Lowers Educational Achievement, Survey finds Malcolm A. Kline September 9, 2015 When academia, aided and abetted by international agencies, tell you something isn’t happening, there is a very good chance that…
Faculty Lounge California High School Teacher Offended by Shakespeare Spencer Irvine June 19, 2015 Obviously, this person doesn’t understand the value of classical English literature. The bad part is that this person is a…
