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…
Perspectives From MLA to Women’s March: Remedial Revolutionaries Malcolm A. Kline January 24, 2017 As we saw from interviews with students at last weekend’s protests, higher education, and lower, probably need to spend more…
MLA MLA-BDS Aftermath: A Star Is Born Malcolm A. Kline January 23, 2017 Just as political careers are often launched from electoral defeats, so too do academic careers blossom when Left wing movements…
Perspectives ‘Heteropatriarchy’ is a Phrase Used in Academia Malcolm A. Kline January 18, 2017 One of the many ironies in academe is the degree to which academics invert reality. This tendency is usually on…
MLA, Perspectives Why Martin Luther King, Jr. Still Matters Malcolm A. Kline January 16, 2017 It is startling to realize how much the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. accomplished in a life span that did…
MLA MLA Comedy Stylebook Not Funny Malcolm A. Kline January 13, 2017 Here’s the problem with the English professors at the Modern Language Association (MLA) attempting to define humor: They’re not funny,…
MLA Civil Rights History, Queered Malcolm A. Kline January 12, 2017 Occasionally, professors at the Modern Language Association (MLA) have good points to make. Unfortunately, they soon get buried in the…
MLA Mugging Melville Malcolm A. Kline January 11, 2017 One of the speakers at this year’s Modern Language Association (MLA) meeting brought up a fascinating quote by William Wordsworth…
