July 29, 2021
Professor Feisal Mohamed has an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education: I Love the Public Humanities, But…
A new orthodoxy has emerged in the humanities: the imperative, delivered with ever-growing urgency, to “go public” — to make our work speak to an audience beyond campus. This injunction comes with a salvationist undertone. Our imperiled disciplines will be saved, the thinking goes, if they become more outward facing. Read the article at the link above.
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