There will be a #BlackLivesMatter solidarity action at MLA on FRI at 1:30PM. Please assemble at 1:30 in Ballroom D, on the first floor (not ground floor) of the convention center.

We plan to have speakers and an open mic there, and then march outside.

Participants without MLA badges can access Ballroom D through the south entrance. We will have…[Read more]

Mentoring isn’t just for students. Great advice from Joycelyn Moody. Let’s keep the conversation going at #MLA15! Blog post here: http://bit.ly/1wPU6y9

Colleagues,

The Ethnic Studies Division Executive Committee has sent the following letter to UIUC Chancellor Wise urging her to reinstate Professor Steven Salaita.

If you would like to sign on to this letter as a member of the Ethnic Studies Division, please email me by Friday, August 22 at Cheryl.Higashida@colorado.edu.  I will then send…[Read more]

One of the Ethnic Studies Division’s 2015 sessions, Whose Border? Whose Memory? Ethnic Studies and Palestine and Israel, will examine “the intellectual, political, and professional stakes of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement” (further details below).  Featuring Professors Salah Hassan, Rajini Sr…[Read more]

“Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)

Sex is everywhere – even on the left.  Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it?  Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed encount…[Read more]

CFP: “Sexing the Left” <i>English Language Notes</i> 53.2 (Spring/Summer 2015)

Sex is everywhere – even on the left.  Then why have many of us been so heedless of its presence there, or so reluctant to acknowledge it?  Even in scholarship where the left is at its most sexual, and sex is at its most left, there are unexplored avenues, missed…[Read more]