Academic Wisdom Unboxed Bethany Stotts, January 8, 2010 As the Chronicle’s blog, Tweed, notes, it is an academic tradition for professors to “try to one-up their colleagues by exchanging unintentionally hilarious sentences from students’ exams and final papers.” (Some of these can be seen here, in the Chronicle forums). In a similar spirit, I will be providing some of the more striking statements made by professors discussing their papers at the 2009 Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention. These are from a panel called “Critical Exuberance” and arranged by the MLA Division on Gay Studies in Language and Literature. President Obama,...