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Issue 3: Stoppage Time: Timescales of the Present, Peer Reviewed Articles, Uncategorized

Queer Times for the Straight Book: Maggie Nelson and Michel Serres

If you read a lot of Michel Serres – and you might: he’s written many books, about a lot of things – a conundrum emerges. On the one hand, he…

Contemporaries Essays, Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

Afterword: Tight Spots and Privileged Spaces

Soon after Bloomsday 2019, a spoken word poet in sparkling brown boots performed for an academic gathering in Dublin. Her lush Irish speech accented what she knows as a working-class…

Contemporaries Essays, Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

The Public and Possible Institutions of Practice

Humanities in the Public In my research with literature festivals in India I ask: why have writers, translators, artists, academics, publishers, and concerned citizens come together to produce a network…

Contemporaries Essays, Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

Why Write for the Public

1 There’s this quote from Borges I used to love. “I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known…

Contemporaries Essays, Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

What Academic Humanists Can Learn from Nonprofits

“Tenure. Is. Over.” I recently attended a panel discussion about the future of public humanities. Afterward, I asked a question about how a presenter’s work might help rebuild tenure in…

Contemporaries Essays, Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

Public Humanities and Crossing Borders

The camp is about twenty minutes outside of Larissa village, in the midst of dried and irrigated fields, beyond a four-lane road that is silent but for the occasional car…

Contemporaries Essays, Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

Introduction: Public Humanities as/and Comparatist Practice

Is public humanities a discipline, an intellectual movement, a social justice movement, or a professional and institutional corrective to an unsustainable economic model in higher education? Can it be more…

Issue 2: How To Be Now, Peer Reviewed Articles

Global China as Genre

Sunny Xiang

Issue 2: How To Be Now, Peer Reviewed Articles

Sean Bonney’s Hate Poems

We are [. . .] unalterable rebels, without gods, master or fatherland; irreconcilable enemies of all despotism, moral or material, individual or collective, in other words, of law and dictatorship…

Issue 2: How To Be Now, Peer Reviewed Articles

Introduction: How to Be Now

“What’s happening with the special issue? The ‘now’ of its title keeps changing its referent!” So one of our contributors complained in June, after we had predicted an April publication…