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The MLA Hookup Ad That Transfixed the Internet

ISSUES Posted: January 13, 2014 11:24 pm

We know (don’t we?) that the Modern Language Association’s annual convention is the scene of many an academic’s assignation. But this particular Craigslist ad caught people’s attention because, as Prof. Rebecca Schulman puts it, “what it sexualizes is nothing less than the single worst moment of your average academic’s entire professional life.”

ISSUES Published: 01.13.14

Read the story in Slate Published: 01.13.14

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