Reader in contemporary cultural studies, University of Central Lancashire As a Glaswegian and an American studies lecturer, I was delighted at the recent decision by Glasgow City Museums to return a...
The Life of Birds
The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval England - The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages, Volume Two: 950-1250
Fatal Protein
An Empire of Schools
Animals on the Agenda - Animal Rights
The Biotech Century - Clones and Clones
Randomness - The Jungles of Randomness
The Crisis of Global Capitalism
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...
"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. "...
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...
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...
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...
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...