Resources

How Can the Public Humanities Advance Our Understanding of the Human Experience?

Background Reading Materials

Humanities Ph.D.’s Career Outcome Statistics:

• American Historical Association (updated 2017), Where Historians Work: An Interactive Database of History PhD Career Outcomes.

• American Academy of Arts and Sciences updated June 2018), Humanities Indicators. “Occupations of Humanities Ph.D.’s” 

Books and Articles

• Report of the MLA Task. Force on Doctoral Study in Modern Language and Literature, 2014
• “56 Ways to do the Public Humanities”, NEH Article on Public Humanities Councils
• AACU’s Diversity & Democracy, Issue on Publicly Engaged Scholarship and Training
• Appel, Molly. “Lessons from the MLA Career Development Boot Camp: ‘Alt-Ac’ is Not So ‘Alt’ After All,” Connected Academics blog, January 24, 2018.
• Bate, Jonathan (ed.), The Public Value of the Humanities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011)
• Brown, Kelly Anne. “Beyond the Numbers: Plotting the Field of Humanities PhDs at Work,” Profession, 2017.
• Carillo, Ellen C. “Beyond the Research Institution: Preparing Graduate Students to Teach in Various Contexts,” Profession, 2019.
• Donoghue, Frank. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities, Fordham UP, 2018. 
• Draxler, Bridget and Danielle Spratt, “Pride and Presentism: On the Necessity of the Public Humanities for Literary Historians,” Profession, 2019.
• Draxler, Bridget and Danielle Spratt. Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice. U of Iowa P, 2019.
• Fitzpatrick, Kathleen. Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University. Johns Hopkins UP, 2019.
• Helen Small, The Value of the Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Jay, Gregory “The Engaged Humanities: Principles and Practices for Public Scholarship and Teaching,” Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship Vol. 3 N. 1
• Kathleen Woodward, “The future of the humanities–in the present & in public”
• Larson, Zeb. “Expanding Beyond the Narrow Contours of ‘Alt-Ac’,” Inside Higher Ed, December 3, 2019.
• Laurence, David. “More on the Career Paths of PhDs in English and Other Modern Languages,” The Trend, August 28, 2018.
• Looser, Devoney. “The Hows and Whys of Public Humanities,” Profession, 2019.
• Looser, Devoney. “The Making of a Public Intellectual.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 1, 2017.
• NEH Article on Public Humanities Councils “56 Ways to do the Public Humanities”
• Report of the MLA Task. Force on Doctoral Study in Modern Language and Literature, 2014
• Schroeder, Robyn. “What Is Public Humanities?” Day of Public Humanities, April 2017.
• Wilson, Jeffrey R. “Historicizing Presentism: Toward the Creation of a Journal of Public Humanities,” Profession, 2019.
• Windholz, Jordan. “Going Public: Rethinking Engagement and Access through Local Partnerships,” Profession, 2019.
• Sidonie Smith, A Manifesto for the Humanities (University of Michigan Press, 2015)
• Stev en Lubar, Blog on Teaching Public Humanities: until July 2015, since August  2015