10th Anniversary

The year 2022 marks the 10th anniversary of Humanities, a peer-reviewed, open access journal based on research in the field of humanities. We value the contributions made by authors and reviewers. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of this journal, we are arranging events and the release of special content. We hope that you are able to join us in celebrating this milestone for our journal, and we hope that you enjoy the collection below.

An Anniversary Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Journal History

View the 10-year timeline infographic here. Trace the development of Humanities from its origins with remarkable events.

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Inaugural issue released, published as a quarterly journal.

Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Classen

Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Classen, from Department of German Studies, University of Arizona.
Interests: medieval and early modern cultural history and humanities; premodern gender studies; history of mentality; comparative literature

Indexed in ERIH Plus

APC funded by institutions through Knowledge Unlatched.

Humanities launches its first reviewer award–"2019 Humanities Outstanding Reviewer Award"

Humanities launches its first travel award–"2019 Humanities Travel Award"

Humanities establishes the following topical sections:

History in the Humanities
Literature in the Humanities
Philosophy and Classics in the Humanities
Film, Television, and Media Studies in the Humanities
Cultural Studies & Critical Theory in the Humanities
Anthropology in the Humanities
Archaeology in the Humanities
Transdisciplinary Humanities

Humanities has been indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

Celebration Activities

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Anniversary Special Issues

10 Anniversary of Humanities - Global Literature - Meeting of Worlds, Past and Present

Anniversary Special Issues

Ford Madox Ford's War Writing

edited by

Sara Haslam

Fiona Houston

and

Nur Karatas

submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6508

Keywords: Ford Madox Ford; propaganda; war fiction; war poetry; war-time letters; mourning and grief; memorial; nationalism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

New Media and Colonialism: New Colonial Media?

edited by Rebecca Weaver-Hightower and

Lorenzo Veracini

submission deadline 31 Jul 2023 | 11 articles | Viewed by 25075

Keywords: new media; colonialism; settler colonialism; global studies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Film, Television, and Media Studies in the Humanities)

New Directions in Medicine and Embodiment on the Shakespearean Stage

edited by

Mary Floyd-Wilson

and

Katherine Walker

submission deadline 30 Sep 2022 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5988

Keywords: Health practitioners; Global exchanges; Mental illness; Gender and health; Disability; Diseases; Spiritual afflictions; Therapeutic texts; Diet; Magic

(This special issue belongs to the Section Transdisciplinary Humanities)

Caribbean Literature Now: Critical Interventions and Literary Activism

edited by

Sarah Lawson Welsh

submission deadline 31 Dec 2023 | Viewed by 979

Keywords: Caribbean literature; twenty-first century writings; literary activism; global movements; the local; contemporary; interdisciplinarity; digital; Caribbean literary criticism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

Twentieth-Century American Literature

edited by

Yvonne Hammond

Katy Ryan

and

Valerie Surrett

submission deadline 15 Sep 2022 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10335

Keywords: prison; abolition; race/racism; incarceration; trauma/generational trauma; literature

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

Modern Japanese Literature and the Media Industry

edited by

Koji Toba

submission deadline 30 Sep 2022 | 15 articles | Viewed by 30139

Keywords: modern Japanese literature; media industry; print industry; magazines; newspapers; cinema; literary films; radio dramas; television; internet; media mix

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

The Faces of Swedish Modernity: Social Realism, Decadence, Modernism, Postmodernism

edited by

Susan Brantly

submission deadline 1 Oct 2022 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11038

Keywords: Decadence; Modern Breakthrough; Modernism; Postmodernism; Realism; Literary History; Sweden; Scandinavia; Nordic

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

10th Anniversary of Humanities - Global Literature - Meeting of Worlds, Past and Present

edited by

Albrecht Classen

submission deadline 31 Jan 2023 | Viewed by 981

(This special issue belongs to the Section Literature in the Humanities)

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10th Anniversary

An Anniversary Message from the Editor-in-Chief

Journal History

Inaugural issue released, published as a quarterly journal.

Founding Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Albrecht Classen

Indexed in ERIH Plus

APC funded by institutions through Knowledge Unlatched.

Humanities launches its first reviewer award–"2019 Humanities Outstanding Reviewer Award"

Humanities launches its first travel award–"2019 Humanities Travel Award"

Humanities establishes the following topical sections:

Humanities has been indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)—Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).

Celebration Activities

Twitter and Instagram

Anniversary Special Issues

Anniversary Special Issues

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