May 28, 1999

What If Scholars in the Humanities Worked Together, in a Lab?

By CATHY N. DAVIDSON

I have been thinking a lot recently about the solitary humanist -- the ideal, derived from the Romantic Era, of the great mind communing with itself. That's because we're considering starting a humanities center at my own institution, and I've been asking what we hope to accomplish -- and with whom we'll be working.

Humanities centers range from those that offer faculty members release time from teaching and

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