Faculty Issues

At this year’s MLA meeting, many sessions will focus on fake news, both in the present and in the literary past. Can scholars of fiction change our understanding of current events?

Bob Blaisdell never condemned a student for reading a book, regardless of its subject matter or author. Until one day.

If we’re in higher education to educate, Jillian Joyce asks, what keeps college teachers from learning more about teaching?

Editors discuss the way a key teaching role has evolved -- and should evolve.

Students may resist it, but rereading a literary text offers many benefits, argues Rachel Wagner.

“Sizable minority” of women have experienced inappropriate treatment at annual political science event, association survey finds.

After a year of turmoil over his social media comments, George Ciccariello-Maher writes that it is no longer safe for him to teach at Drexel.

Author discusses new book on social science research in era of big data.