Sunday, December 24, 2006

Merry MLA to all


Off to Philly on Wednesday for the Big Meeting. Very little blogging before and after.

Unlike many, I actually enjoy this convention. Even when my time is dedicated mostly to interviewing job candidates.

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UPDATE 12/27 7.30 PM
After two hours on what was apparently the world's most crowded train, I'm here in Philadelphia. Because GW is hiring for two positions this year, I'm staying in Interview Central: the Embassy Suites, where each of the 25 floors has 12 suites mostly inhabited by departments interviewing job candidates. Do the math: that makes this hotel the center of the MLA job market vortex. The elevators are filled with a mixture of aging academics in their festive convention attire and young scholars nervously heading towards their interrogations.

3 comments:

JKW said...

Please let us know where, officially, Em-El-Ay is going to be next year. I searched the web site thoroughly today, to no avail, and I'm curious.

Karl Steel said...

Chicago.

JKW said...

Yuck. I'd heard Toronto, but, alas, that was too good to be true.