Kathleen Stein-Smith on Foreign Language Advocacy at the MLA Convention
At MLA Today Participating in a Panel Presentation on College Foreign Language Requirements
Must-Reads
IUPUI’s English Week: Community in Action
What’s a way to boost majors and credit hours, bring increased attention to the English department, and excite faculty? A celebration called “English Week” brings all these benefits and more,…
What Can I Do With an English Major?
The story of the unemployable English major is both powerful and damaging, since students are more than ever concerned that their choice of degree will lead to successful employment—reasonably so…
New Updates to Language Indicators
I thought followers of the ADE/ADFL Commons might be interested in the “New Updates to Language Indicators.” Here is the PDF of the Indicators report on languages and the link to their website.
Approaches to Undergraduate Literary Study
At the 2015 ADE-ADFL Summer Seminar East in Arlington, Virginia, John David Guillory (NYU) and Domna Stanton (CUNY Graduate Center) presented papers that consider the problem of the content of…
Tracking Academic Job Opportunities for Modern Language PhDs
The Modern Language Association’s office of research has published the annual report for 2014–15 on trends in the MLA Job Information List (JIL). The report tracks the number of jobs departments advertised…
From the Bulletin Archives
These are among the most-read articles in the ADE and ADFL bulletins: “What Is a Comprehensive University, and Do I Want to Work There?” by Marcia A. Dalbey “Writing Letters…
What’s It Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors
Are you getting questions about the economic value of majors? Using United States Census Bureau data from the American Communities Survey, the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce…