Opinion

“When at a loss how to go on, cough,” says an ancient Greek proverb. Or so claims 10,000 Jokes, Toasts...

The MLA convention in San Francisco this year is spread out over two hotels, one on either side of Market...

The panel titled "Negotiating Family and Graduate Studies", sponsored by the Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the...

My first San Francisco MLA, I didn't get any closer to the convention than the lobby of the Fairmont Hotel...

Among Richard Vedder's 10 ways the economic downturn might change campus behavior: bigger teaching loads, more unionization, a truce in the athletics arms race -- and a slowing in college presidents' pay?

For those interviewing at MLA this year, here are links to a couple of dispatches I did for McSweeney's on...

Carolyn Foster Segal considers -- with some fear -- the number of meetings professors must attend.

I'm not sure when or why December 26 became Boxing Day but it always has been, at least in my...