4 to Live By
by Crystal Parikh, Associate Professor of English, New York University Fifteen years into an academic career, I have landed upon four general truths that…
Your First Year on the Tenure Track
by Cynthia Wu, Associate Professor of Transnational Studies, University of Buffalo If you are reading this, it probably means that you have a job…
“Checkpoints”—2016 Convention
“Checkpoints: Global Black Literature and the Phenomenology of Movement,” Christopher Ian Foster, The Graduate Center, CUNY “Indigeneity and Federalism’s Fissures in the United States,”…
Reflections on Solidarity
by Pranav Jani, @pranavjani It’s two months after the #Ferguson2MLA action in Vancouver on January 9, and I had planned to write this up…
A Rationale for Speaking Up
by Dr. Amber Riaz, Canadian Scholar When I decided to speak up at the #Ferguson2MLA gathering, I was motivated by Dr. Koritha Mitchell’s assertion…
What #Ferguson2MLA Means to Me
by Koritha Mitchell, @ProfKori Motivated by the belief that #BlackLivesMatter, a diverse group of scholar-activists began organizing a solidarity action that would take place…
Mentoring at Midcareer
by Joycelyn Moody, Sue E. Denman Distinguished Chair in American Literature Joycelyn.Moody@utsa.edu Everyone needs mentoring. No stage or rank in the academy lies beyond…
A Dynamic Intellectual Community
What I understood as a graduate student that continues to serve me well is that I must always operate from a space of both…