A few minutes ago I just happened to see this interesting announcement on the MLA Announcements list. Wasn’t sure where to post it, but hopefully someone here might be interested (or know someone who is):
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP. Submissions are invited for the University of Michigan Press book series The New Public Scholarship: Citizenship, Cultural Practice, and Public Life. The editors Lonnie Bunch (Smithsonian), Julie Ellison (Univ. of Michigan), and Robert Weisbuch (Drew Univ.) seek manuscripts that originate in the public turn in the humanities, the arts, and associated fields and that represent the best in democratically engaged and intellectually consequential cultural work. The series focuses on the United States but encourages transnational or comparative approaches. The editors are receptive to diverse methodologies and genres: project case studies, studies of how communities grapple with intercultural difference, analyses of institutional and organizational change, life writing, topical dialogues (e.g., on the humanities in general or the public humanities in particular), work on cultural policy, volumes on keywords or key concepts, and historical investigations. Also of interest is work that offers new paradigms for doing and theorizing public scholarship itself. For more information, visit http://www.press.umich.edu/series.do?id=UM149. Send inquiries to Ellison (jeson@umich.edu) or Tom Dwyer, acquiring editor (thdwyer@umich.edu).
