Guest Column—The New Public Humanists
Guest Column—The New Public Humanists
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客座专栏——新公共人文主义者
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2013
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通讯作者：
Julie Ellison
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作者：
Julie Ellison
学术人文和公共人文之间的界限是模糊的，而且一直在变得越来越模糊--这是一件好事。我们继承了面向非专业受众和非学术职业的公共人文学科和面向“学科专业主义”的学术人文学科之间的区别(本德尔9)1虽然学术和公众对人文学科的理解不会很快融合，但它们不再被整齐地划为不同的、即使是连续的领域。跨越和重新跨越这一边界的标记清晰的小路勾勒出了第三个空间--一个公共学术实践的空间。蒂莫西·K·埃特曼将公共奖学金称为“学术或创造性活动，将严肃的智力努力与致力于公共实践和公共后果的承诺结合在一起”(“参与式奖学金”18)。在这个中间地带，我们可以追随学术人文主义者的轨迹，他们与非学术机构和组织合作，与其他部门公开参与的文化专业人员的足迹交织在一起。这些学者是威廉·保尔森“扩大的人文学科”(包括“创造和重塑我们所属的社会、文化和物质集体的整个项目”[191]的公民)，他们描述自己正在从事“不同形式的知识”，关于、为和与‘不同的公众和社区’，正如伊特曼和我在我们的12 8中所展示的那样。2]
T HE LINE BETWEEN THE ACADEMIC HUMANITIES AND THE PUBLIC humanities is fuzzy and getting more so all the time—and that is a good thing. We inherit a distinction between the public humanities, oriented to nonspecialist audiences and nonacademic careers, and the academic humanities, oriented to “disciplinary professionalism” (Bender 9).1 While academic and public understandings of the humanities will not merge anytime soon, they can no longer be neatly drawn as distinct if contiguous domains. Wellmarked paths that cross and recross this boundary delineate a third space—a space for the practice of public scholarship. Timothy K. Eat man refers to public scholarship as “scholarly or creative activity that joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitment to public practice and public consequence” (“Engaged Scholarship” 18). In this intermediate zone, we can follow the tracks of academic humanists who partner with nonacademic institutions and organizations, interlaced with the footprints of publicly engaged cultural professionals based in other sectors. Citizens of William Paulson’s “enlarged humanities” (inclusive of “the entire project of making and remaking the social, cultural, and material collectives to which we belong” [191]), these scholars describe themselves as undertaking “diferent forms of making knowledge ‘about, for, and with’ diverse publics and communities,” as Eatman and I demonstrated in our 1 2 8 . 2 ]