May 20, 2005

Humanities Scholars Debate Whether Anyone Is Listening to Them

By RICHARD BYRNE

In recent years, concerns raised by humanities scholars in the United States about the dire state of academic publishing have deepened into an even more basic re-examination of the mission of the disciplines themselves: Are the humanities -- via publishing or pedagogy -- attempting to reach a wider public? Is anyone listening when they do speak?

Such questions were raised again this month at the annual meeting here of the American Council of Learned Societies, in a panel on

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