Puzzling and fuzzy ensembles
Randomness - The Jungles of Randomness
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Reheated wizardry
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an MLA icon: "High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English...
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Three-ring circus of the literary intelligentsia
"Come to the next MLA," the aptly named American academic Morris Zapp, professor of English at Euphoric State University, advises a young lecturer from Limerick in David Lodge's novel Small World. "...
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PhDs derailed on the tenure track
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs. Mark Kelley says this is just a ploy to fob graduates off By the end of the year, in addition to completing my PhD coursework and taking written and oral...
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Selection of MLA prizes for distinguished scholarship
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs James Russell Lowell prize for outstanding literary/ linguistics study: David Wallace, U. of Penn, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational...
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What a new-fangled web he weaves
Alan Liu runs 'The Voice of the Shuttle', a gateway to all humanities subjects posted on the internet Alan Liu compares his website to a giant redwood tree that is growing and dying at the same time...
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Nice work, if you can get it
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs The 1990s were supposed to look very different. In the MLA's files from 1989, there is a newspaper clipping that now reads like a sick joke. "Shortage of...
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Engage the world
US humanities PhDs can't get academic jobs. Elaine Showalter suggests they look elsewhere At the end of 1998 it would be tempting to accept the gloomy voices in academia that tell us that the...
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Who's been a bard dog, then..?
Mr Hooker, Shakespeare's mutt, tells his tale as animal autobiographies, queer Walter Scott, The Sound of Music and internet sex diaries all compete for the title of wackiest subject of academic...
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Colonial rule and school
Edward Said, next year's MLA president, recalls the colonial schools that have shaped his life and work The American academic Edward Said once wrote that the best schools of the British and French...
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Adventurers in the screen trade
The THES talks to PhDs who have forsaken the overhead projector for the bright lights of Hollywood When John Romano is cooking up stories for his television series Party of Five, kicking ideas around...
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A pilgrim's progess report
Novelist and academic David Lodge is best known for his satires of life in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. With a distinguished career at Birmingham University behind him, he is also one...
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Professors with sex on the brain
A Pilgrim's progress report Small World opens on the fictional Rummidge campus, hosting the dreary University Teachers of English Language and Literature conference. Persse McGarrigle, having just...
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Sex becomes a metaphor for life
A Pilgrim's progress report In David Lodge's Nice Work, Robyn Penrose, Cambridge graduate, has finally secured a poorly paid three-year lectureship in English literature at the University of Rummidge...