At the MLA
In The Washington Post, Jacob Brogan writes about a visit to the Modern Language Association convention.
Academic futures
What Sharon O’Dair found at the Modern Language Association’s 2018 convention: a profession that produces too many Ph.D.s, and then encourages those degree recipients to seek a future outside academia.
Another modest proposal
Ban departments that engage in exploitative hiring practices from listing jobs (any jobs) in the MLA Job Information List and from interviewing at the MLA convention.
Anti-MLA Handbook
Dallas Liddle hates the new edition of the MLA Handbook.
Bad news from the MLA
The Modern Language Association reports that the 2014–2015 job market in English and foreign languages was the worst in forty years.
Leadbelly at the MLA
An improbable encounter