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Public Scholarship in Literary Studies
Edited by Rachel Arteaga and Rosemary Erickson JohnsenWith contributions from Christopher Douglas, Cynthia L. Haven, Carmaletta M. Williams, Gary Handwerk, Anu Taranath, Christine Chaney, Jim Cocola, Daniel Coleman, and Lorraine York.
"There are books of literary criticism that attempt to reach crossover audiences but none that take this particular public-humanities-focused-on-literary criticism perspective."
— Kathryn Temple, Georgetown University
Rachel Arteaga is assistant director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, where she also serves as associate program director for Reimagining the Humanities PhD and Reaching New Publics, a public scholarship initiative supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her publications on higher education have appeared in the Modern Language Association journal Profession and Inside Higher Ed, and materials she has developed related to humanities curriculum and advocacy are accessible on Humanities Commons.
Rosemary Erickson Johnsen is associate provost and associate vice president of academic affairs at Governors State University and the University's chief administrator of faculty affairs. Also a professor of English, Johnsen has is the author of Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), as well as many articles on crime fiction, Irish literature, and public humanities.
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- 978-1-943208-22-7 (paperback)
- 978-1-943208-23-4 (open access)