The annual Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention ended this past weekend. I was not there. Last year I attended the convention in Philadelphia, but a few months after it, I decided to let my MLA membership lapse because of a specific interaction that highlighted MLA’s lack of support for underfunded […]
At this year’s MLA Convention, I am honored to be on a panel devoted to “Woolf’s 21st Century Academia”, a panel sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society. My presentation, “Poor Queer Studies for a Society of Outsiders” positions Woolf’s Three Guineas alongside Matt Brim’s Poor Queer Studies. However, once […]
At this year’s MLA Convention, I was a member of a great panel discussing “The State of the Syllabus”. It was tremendously well attended, especially for a session on the very first day of the Convention. My contribution was a brief discussion of the syllabus as an instrument of cruelty. […]