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Somewhere out on The Edge of the American West, a professor sends a note to one of his young charges who has contacted him about the semester's work: You don’t need to apologize for emailing me ...

I was in touch with Astra Taylor about her documentary Žižek! quite a long time ago, or so it seems. She has a new film called Examined Life consisting of what might be called ...

Matthew K. Gold is doing a recap of the sessions on digital humanities in San Francisco last week, including a look at responses to what he dubs "the 'cantankerous objector' meme." See ...

More from Rate Your Students on MLA interviews that do not exactly go what one would call well. Here are some favorites: Candidate 1: Admitted that teaching was relatively low on his priorities. ...

Some of my in-laws live in the LA area, and they all agree that, however good The Los Angeles Times may once have been, it has of late declined. Actually they use more colorful language than that. ...

Attending MLA in order to listen to the papers is a little like going to a bordello out of a taste for piano music. It reflects a certain confusion about the nature of the place. To persist in the ...

Just ran into Amanda French at the IHE booth, over in the exhibit hall. She helped elucidate something that has puzzled me since yesterday -- namely, that blog postings about this year's MLA seem ...

Over at Rate Your Students, a blogger identified as Layla from Lounsberry points out that the best thing about getting a job at MLA is that then you don't have to try to go to MLA to get a job ...

One look at the line in front of Starbucks in the lobby this morning was enough to remind me that the MLA provides coffee and whatnot in its Press Room -- a quiet spot set aside for visiting ...

Rosemary Feal, the MLA's executive director, came up to say hello in the lobby while I was sitting there staring off into space. She assumed (she said) that I was contemplating something profound. ...