Public Works: Insights from the Humanities on Issues in the Public Square

"Conceived as a 'digital pamphlet' series, titles in Public Works seek out and make available to a wide audience of readers the perspectives of leading scholars in the humanities on questions rising to significance in our public conversation, and demanding more discerning examination and penetrating insight. Shorter than monographs, these works will offer both authors and readers the freedom of long-form essays and the tools of digital media to see through the lens of the human experience the seemingly intractable questions confronting a complex, deeply interconnected, and sometimes shockingly violent world. Essays published in Public Works series are available as open-access works of scholarship, immediately and freely available to readers and thinkers everywhere. As digital works, they will be published to the web and also downloadable to a variety of reading devices." Austin Sarat is the current series editor. The Amherst College Press series page may be found here.