“At the Modern Language Association, you can watch academic stars rise, and it’s depressing. “
Nothing academic about that collection of colossal ignorance.
If we in real academia (e.g., STEM) were cursed by MLA types, they’d be saying that 2 + 2 = 6 for large values of 2 - as 2 approaches 3.
That's what my calculus professor said.......................