Going to the MLA Convention? Please come to hear queer Cuban-American writer and translator Achy Obejas in Session 298 , “Endlessly Cuban: A Discussion on the Work of Achy Obejas with the Author” and Session 473, “A Creative Conversation with Achy Obejas.” See https://achyobejas.mla.hcommons-staging.org/ for bios.

The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0

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Part-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/MLA-Financial-Assistance/Non-Tenure-Track-Faculty-Members-and-Unemployed-Members-Traveling-to-the-Convention

Freeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsMUuEpxO0

The Public and its Privates

Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.com

Between the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702

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