MLA, Perspectives Prostitution’s Victims Ignored by Amnesty International Spencer Irvine January 17, 2016 Occasionally the Modern Language Association (MLA) actually does look at language, and makes a valuable contribution to the sum of…
MLA, Perspectives Sexual Violence in the Military Spencer Irvine January 16, 2016 In a presentation to a Modern Language Association (MLA) panel on sexual violence, Ariana Vigil, a women’s studies professor at…
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…
MLA, Perspectives Ecologically Correct: It’s Academic! Malcolm A. Kline January 14, 2016 It’s interesting that although liberals are the ones who most like to talk about protecting the environment, conservatives are the…
MLA, Perspectives Academic Animal Studies/Farm Malcolm A. Kline January 13, 2016 George Orwell might have been amused. Academia is well on its way to quite literally becoming Animal Farm. Indeed, the…
MLA, Perspectives Rock, Paper, Scissors Malcolm A. Kline January 12, 2016 It’s interesting that some of the same people who go ballistic at the suggestion that corporations are people are quite…
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…
Perspectives Academia Ignores Best-Selling Authors C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien Malcolm A. Kline October 14, 2015 Two authors who collectively have sold hundreds of millions of copies of their books decades after their deaths receive scant…
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…
