The accelerated growth of interdisciplinary programs
is just one indicator of the radical changes that have occurred
within the academy during the past thirty years. Women's studies,
peace studies, disability studies, environmental studies, queer
studies, postcolonial studies, gender studies, ethnic studies (together
and separately), cultural studies, and many more, have become established
sites of inquiry. Much is owed to past generations of writers and
thinkers whose voices were silenced, only now to be welcomed by
academia. Considering this shifting of borders and expansion of
domains, books in The New Academy, a series edited by Elizabeth
Kamarck Minnich, explore conceptual tools developed by recent scholarship
to extend, reconfigure, and comment upon intersections and divisions
among established and emerging fields of academic study. Moving
beyond rhetoric and jargon, the series engages the growing readership
for critical and creative, inclusive and reconciling scholarship. |
