Faculty

Analysis of a year’s worth of MLA job postings -- most of them for teaching positions -- finds strong emphasis on alt-ac skills. Are doctoral programs providing the right training?

Scott McLemee explores the Library of Congress’s recent announcement that it will no longer be a repository of every public posting to Twitter.

By Scott McLemee

At this year’s MLA meeting, many sessions will focus on fake news, both in the present and in the literary past. Can scholars of fiction change our understanding of current events?

If we’re in higher education to educate, Jillian Joyce asks, what keeps college teachers from learning more about teaching?

By Jillian Joyce

Bob Blaisdell never condemned a student for reading a book, regardless of its subject matter or author. Until one day.

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Students may resist it, but rereading a literary text offers many benefits, argues Rachel Wagner.

By Rachel Wagner

Editors discuss the way a key teaching role has evolved -- and should evolve.

“Sizable minority” of women have experienced inappropriate treatment at annual political science event, association survey finds.