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Fighting Censorship … With Trigger Warnings
At National Women’s Studies Association annual gathering, scholar talks using trigger warnings and safe spaces as a way to engage men in feminist discourse.
Another Bad Year for History Jobs
American Historical Association sees 12 percent decline in openings, for fifth straight year of downward trend.
Opinion
‘Some People Are Just Born Good Writers’
Jill Parrott shatters the myth that you either have writing talent or you don’t.
Paying for the Job Search
Fordham’s English department is giving those finishing doctorates $4,500 each to help with the many costs associated with finding a position.
Bringing Their Perspectives to Class
Annual survey finds that students want to and increasingly are doing so, many times related to diversity.
Fear of Accented English
Students outside the U.S. doubt reliability of instruction in English that is not from native speakers, study finds.
Opinion
Hitting the Accelerator
Scott McLemee reviews The Acceleration of Cultural Change: From Ancestors to Algorithms, in which social networks, big data, memes and the like are presented as extreme cases of the creative and disruptive potentials or our tool-oriented species.