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Come Back From San Francisco (MLA 2008)

January 5, 2009

I couldn’t get that Magnetic Fields song out of my head for about a week (thanks, Mark). Turns out that San Francisco can be all that pretty, no matter what Stephin Merritt says. That may explain why I enjoyed the 2008 Modern Language Association conference, held in SF Dec. 27-30, more than the 2007 gathering in Chicago (brrr). If you’re curious about what 8,400 lit-and-crit professors wanted to talk about this time around, here are links to some of my reports from the convention:

Market Realities in San Francisco

Pedagogy Is Not a Dirty Word

Fear and Interviewing

A Buyer’s Market?

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