A new quarterly journal aiming to bridge the gap between humanities research and everyday life has been launched by Cambridge University Press – with a University of Birmingham academic at the helm. was co-founded by , who will be the open-access journal’s Editor-in-Chief, and has a global advisory board of 102 academics.
“I am absolutely thrilled to be the inaugural Editor-in-Chief of Public Humanities,” says Dr Bulaitis, Assistant Professor in Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences at the College of Arts and Law. “The journal is a space to curate, represent, and evidence the value and diversity of humanities research.
“This journal, along with the identification of public humanities as an important theme in the , is a clear sign that the University of Birmingham will be a central hub for emerging and ongoing intellectual discussions about the public humanities in the twenty-first century.”
The first issue – published later this year – will be called and looks to address the status and stakes of public humanities today, including understanding what it means, how it should be supported and what the future holds for the emerging field. of between 1,000 and 3,000 words, with initial 300-word abstracts for consideration to be sent via email by 1 April.