Austin—it was tons of fun but entirely too brief. Now the loooong journey back to Leipzig. Friends, colleagues—until next time! #MLA16 #fb

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雲海。Cloud sea over #Austin - #MLA16 it's been lovely! #clouds #aerial #fromtheplane https://www.instagram.com/p/BAV7ywUDb-D/

The #MLA16/Austin Boat Show juxtaposition is funny, but not as weird as the Seattle Bridal Show juxtaposition was with #MLA12

Students took up Barry assignment -writing by hand in all manners: dream journal,cartooning,mindmaps #MLA16 #s504 https://t.co/xYKs6fOqzs

- in order to get away from self-evaluation mode and focus on process of 'seeing' by hand. #MLA16 #s504 Writing Otherwise panel

Examples of when my 6yo and I experimented w drawing each other w/our left (non-dominant) hands - #MLA16 #s504 https://t.co/8p7gmMFAZP

#MLA16 #s504 My student's work: https://t.co/l3FZUC1eMo

#MLA16 #s504 Writing Otherwise -@chowleen "This is your hand, these are my hands, this is the world" - https://t.co/qFfPXREDss

#MLA16 #s504 Writing Otherwise - Eileen Chow -Margaret Atwood's "You Begin" (1979) ht @LisaRuddick https://t.co/b9yAFpXXaL

Either late night or early morning replenishment, depending on your time zone #5am @ihop #MLA16 https://t.co/NTZ8DmKN4H

It was when our server acknowledged our order with a cheery “Boom boom!” that I finally knew for sure: I am Too Old For Austin. #MLA16

Dear #MLA16 — I wish I were not too ill to see you. You look like fun, and you have a lot of my friends.

the absolute upside of #MLA16: finally meeting #onhere friends like @Nsousanis! And was great to see @AnaSalter too~ https://t.co/rhI0F2zsGo

Brilliant: @Ato_quayson: often "multilingual iteration is seen as sign of idiocy" or as having "something to hide" #MLA16 #s241

"In its heydey literature theory taught students why a particular work was interesting and durable." -Perloff #MLA16 #s241

And my favorite use of Caetano Veloso - as thematic/musical backdrop for Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together https://youtu.be/09i5JpuZf5U #MLA16 #s241

Transcendent scene rom HABLA CON ELLA dir. Pedro Almodovar -Caetano Veloso playing Cucurrucucu https://youtu.be/-CsA1CcA4Z8 #MLA16 #s241

*Fangirls over Caetano Veloso* whew, got that out of the way. #MLA16 #s241

Internet labor as a 'major gift of time' - #MLA16 #s241

Can love and work coexist in non-exploitative ways? Could that be the space of home? Feminist sociology work on intimate sphere #MLA16 #s241

"A real man and a real book can only know each other well in the quiet of the home." as powerful and problematic notion- Lynch #MLA16

"Notions of expertise have been mixed up with notions of domestic retirement" - Lynch #MLA16 #s241

#s258 has been the highlight of #mla16 thus far. Smart, provocative, dynamic discussions of essential DH keywords. And now for Q&A!

"Literature tends to be where school, and schooling, are not" -Lynch on perception for what is 'real' literature #MLA16 #s241

"Making last year's bedtime reading into this year's senior seminar syllabus"-owning up to our 'love lives' in our work Lynch #MLA16 #s241

literary professionalism defined by detachment & a hermeneutics of suspicion; now call for "detachment from detachment"-D Lynch #MLA16 #s241

"Publics for literature are always more numerous than academics in literature fields think" - Diedre Shauna Lynch #MLA16 #s241

#MLA16 #s241 @bruceholsinger on how often we are told to 'build and grow our publics' these days.

Come see our fabulous books from @DeepVellum & @ConsortiumBooks in booth 221. #MLA16 https://t.co/MwLwxoqhac

#mla16 #s75 Rebecca Wanzo: Do we have room to think of "a rapist's tears" in thinking of justice in sex assault? e.g.citing black solidarity