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Does Dismal MLA Job Market Add to Hook-Up Demand?
This year's annual meeting of the Modern Language Association has featured much chatter about how the terrible job market has...
'The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies'
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies (New York University Press) explores the state of the discipline more than 40...
Economics and the MLA
Language professors call for all faculty members, including part-timers, to be eligible for tenure and to receive "a living wage." Association avoids vote on Ward Churchill.
What Direction for Rhet-Comp?
Has field become too enamored of theory or "agency" or new media or writing about writing -- as opposed to its roots? Has "drive-by Foucault" replaced political and philosophical thought?
Judge Orders Oakland U. to House Student With Disability
Oakland University discriminated against a disabled student by refusing to let him live in a campus residence hall, a federal...
'Seeing the Light'
Samuel Schuman's administrative career included positions as chancellor of two state universities -- the University of Minnesota at Morris and...
Economic Literary Realities
Crisis today should lead to reevaluation of some works about previous downturns, and a renewed focus on financial issues in literature, scholars argue.
How to Thrive (or Survive)
Foreign language chairs consider strategies to bolster departments' standing -- and minimize cuts. For many, key issue is demonstrating relevance to people outside the humanities.