Campus Report Literature Assaulted @MLA Accuracy in Academia March 1, 2017 In our latest visit to the Modern Language Association, we discover, once again, that if you love literature, you may…
MLA The Right has become “Intrusive” on College Campuses Spencer Irvine February 16, 2017 One college professor is worried about the increasingly “intrusive” nature of conservative and libertarian-leaning activists on college campuses. David Theo…
MLA Jane Austen at 200: She Gave “Comfort to Whiteness” Spencer Irvine February 15, 2017 Several college professors picked apart Jane Austen, who would have turned 200 years old this year. In a packed room…
MLA Melville Mixes with Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump Spencer Irvine February 14, 2017 A panel of college professors claimed that Herman Melville’s books can be applied to today’s issues of Black Lives Matter,…
MLA Remembering Black Lives Matter, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray Spencer Irvine February 13, 2017 A panel of college professors memorialized Black Lives Matter and the movement’s icons, Trayvon Martin and Freddie Gray. At the…
MLA Professors Sticking Together in Trump’s America Spencer Irvine February 3, 2017 At the Modern Language Association, one panel of professors discussed a thirty-year-old book and one professor encouraged the Left to…
MLA Gays, Zombies and Queer Literature in Caribbean Culture Spencer Irvine February 2, 2017 In an offering typical of the academic exotica on display at the Modern Language Association, and for that matter, in…
MLA “Hamilton” at the MLA Spencer Irvine February 1, 2017 “Hamilton,” a popular Broadway hip-hop musical, has now made it into the Modern Language Association consciousness. At the 2017 convention…
MLA MLA Vocabulary Contest Malcolm A. Kline January 31, 2017 There is at least one way in which the Modern Language Association (MLA) that thousands of English professors belong to…
MLA Workers of Berkeley Unite! Malcolm A. Kline January 30, 2017 Now here’s a man-bites-dog story: Labor strife at Berkeley. Janitorial, custodial and cafeteria workers at Berkeley are fighting to maintain…
MLA Hidden in Plain Sight: Genuine Scholarship at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline January 27, 2017 In the days before Wayne Gretzky brought elegance to hockey, a running joke about the sport was, “I went to…
MLA Black Lives Matter Street Theater at the MLA Malcolm A. Kline January 25, 2017 At the Modern Language Association (MLA) annual convention in Philadelphia this year, we got to see some of the “Creative…
