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Nine essays and a roundtable discussion provided the content for the recent special issue of Feminist Formations on "Institutional Feelings: Practicing Women’s Studies in the Corporate University." The issue sought to give women's studies practitioners a...

Late in 2015, the journal South Central Review published a special issue on "Graphic Narrative." The issue featured seven essays and two book reviews on the growing field of scholarship focused on this area of publishing. Nicole Stamant, assistant professor of...

The Johns Hopkins University Press will add a quartet of journals to its list. The diverse additions - ASAP/Journal, Dante Studies, Journal of Jewish Identities and Lutheran Quarterly – now bring the JHUP journals list to 83. "The addition of these titles...

In the final issue for 2015, the journal Technology and Culture included an essay from Danish-based researchers Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest called "Pro-Nuclear Environmentalism: Should We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Energy?" Sylvest, an...

With all the discussion in academics about the importance of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) for students, the journal diacritics turned the lens on how humanities scholars talk about this topic. Penn State University English professor Brian...

In late 2015, the Journal of Late Antiquity published a special issue on the intersections of religion, medicine, health, healing and disability in Late Antiquity. Guest edited by Kristi Upson-Saia and Heidi Marx-Wolf, the issue featured 10 essays on this...

Guest post by Garry L. Hagberg Denis Dutton (1944–2010) spent over more than thirty-five years editing or jointly editing Philosophy and Literature, the collective intellectual adventure in humane learning that saw its first issue in 1976, and was steadfastly...

By Lauren Anderson Marketing Assistant Angela Moore has lived a life full of challenges. Since birth, she has suffered from acquired spastic cerebral palsy. Although the odds were stacked against her, she never let her condition get the better of her or...

Guest Post by Thomas G. Sowders On this 134th anniversary of Wallace Stevens’ birth, we might well ask: Why do we keep turning to this poet? Paradoxically both one of the most highly regarded and least-known major men of the modernist era, Stevens’ ideas—his...

Guest Post by Neil Roberts Not guilty. The force of those two words, delivered on July 13, 2013, by the six-person jury in the State of Florida vs. George Zimmerman case, nationally and globally ignited already intense domestic debates about race, Stand Your...