Number of openings for English and foreign languages has stopped falling -- but it hasn't recovered at all from two years of dramatic drops.
As beleaguered humanities professors gather at MLA conclave, the talk is of budget cuts, tough questions and sometimes uncomfortable strategies.
Group created to be the anti-MLA and guardian of traditional literary analysis holds sessions and builds new relationship with ... the MLA.
At MLA, scholars argue for the power of the web and social media to create a new generation of public intellectuals.
MLA moves to make it more difficult to take an official position.
Community college English professors worry that they're being discouraged from teaching the kind of fiction that can change students' lives.
In an era when many literary journals are struggling to survive or becoming Web-only, Amherst starts a new print publication, focused on physical space.
New panel is charged by bipartisan quartet of Congressmen to find 10 ways to strengthen the humanities and social sciences.
Prominent scholars gather to argue for the importance of their fields to the future of democracy.
New guidelines for teaching writing seek to build "habits of mind" instead of touting specific methods.
