Posted on 12/29/2016 7:53:05 AM PST by Academiadotorg
While you're getting started on your New Year's resolutions, we're knocking one off of our own bucket list: We’ll be kicking off 2017 with our friends at the Modern Language Association (MLA) at their annual convention in Philadelphia.
Several thousand English professors will be in the City of Brotherly Love to attend about 800 panels featuring a couple thousand of their peers on topics near to the heart of most academics: Not only do they give a new twist to old favorites of theirs but they also preview the studies and core curricula of college students everywhere.
Thus, you can pretty much match up MLA convention topics with course offerings at most accredited colleges and universities. Here, try it:
8. Foucault and Queer of Color Critique
9. Reimagining Adolescence: Where Are We Going, Where Have We Been?
16. Visible and Visual Boundaries of Disability
32. The Rise of the Celebrity Chef
And my favorite:
35. Spaces and Architectures of Boredom—which sounds like a good title for our report on the MLA
There is also:
41. Trespassing on Boundaries with Women’s Archives (Maybe they should put signs on them?)
49. We can't stop talking about Elena Ferrante. (Gee, we never started!)
And that's just from the first two hours of the first day of the four-day conference. It's gonna be a long week….
Malcolm A. Kline is the executive director of Accuracy in Academia (AIA), a non-profit research group reporting on bias in education.
3 kids in college. Why are you making my life so difficult? Serious here. Spend more time helping them with the 3 million ways to cite a paper than math, science, history, anything else.
...Elena Ferrante....
Elena who? BS!!!!
This is all a symptom of the problem of too many liberal arts professors and how do you show “academic production” in order to grant “P&T - Promotion & Tenure”.
I don’t know what the solution is for “P&T” but; having a metric of producing “academically reviewed” nonsense is not the way to go!
The issue of “too many” will be solved by economic fealty & the ability to say “ You want fries with that?”.
SOSDD..................
The Poison Ivy League...................
The MLA should be registered as a communist front organization.
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