Events, News Free Speech Confusion at the MLA Spencer Irvine January 25, 2015 The academically free have different ideas of what free speech means than the rest of us do. At the Modern…
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 NAFTA Encourages Violence in Mexico, MLA Panel Alleges Spencer Irvine January 22, 2015 The North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA, between Canada, U.S. and Mexico, signed by President Clinton encourages graphic posts of…
Events, News Feminists, Gays and Crip[ple] Theory Spencer Irvine January 21, 2015 In one of the few crowded roundtable discussions at the recent MLA conference in Vancouver, which was far from a…
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…
Perspectives MLA’s Canada Health Care Guide Malcolm A. Kline November 12, 2014 Next year, thousands of English professors head to Vancouver for the annual Modern Language Association (MLA) convention. Let’s hope they…