Guest Column—The New Public Humanists
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23230587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie Ellison (University of Michigan, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-298 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-8129 • E-ISSN: 1938-1530 |
| Publisher | Modern Language Association (MLA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1632/pmla.2013.128.2.289 |
| OpenAlex | W2055171110 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
humanities is fuzzy and getting more so all the time-and that is a good thing. We inherit a distinction between the public humanities, oriented to nonspecialist audiences and nonacademic careers, and the academic humanities, oriented to "disciplinary professionalism" (Bender 9).1 While academic and public understandings of the humanities will not merge anytime soon, they can no longer be neatly drawn as distinct if contiguous domains. Wellmarked paths that cross and recross this boundary delineate a third space-a space for the practice of public scholarship. Timothy K. Eat man refers to public scholarship as "scholarly or creative activity that joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence" ("Engaged Scholarship" 18). In this intermediate zone, we can follow the tracks of academic humanists who partner with nonacademic institutions and organizations, interlaced with the footprints of publicly engaged cultural professionals based in other sectors. Citizens of William Paulson's "enlarged humanities" (inclusive of "the entire project of making and remaking the social, cultural, and material collectives to which we belong" [191]), these scholars describe themselves as undertaking "diferent forms of making knowledge 'about, for, and with' diverse publics and communities," as Eatman and I demonstrated in our 128.
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| Citations per year | 0.42 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |