Editor's Editorial

Michael Fuchs

doi:10.47060/jaaas.v1i1.103

Abstract

This is the editor's editorial. In lieu of an abstract, here is the editorial's first paragraph: In the first issue of Textual Practice, the late Shakespeare scholar Terence Hawkes claimed, "It is never a good time to start a new journal." "The Humanities in particular feel marginalized and underfunded," he continued. "[T]hey sense themselves to be hopelessly at odds with a culture which has long abandoned any recognition of the value of their role."1 More than thirty years later, some of these words still ring very true.

Highlights

Addressing the three main points Hawkes mentioned in his editorial in reverse order, I see a “complicated” (for the lack of a more appropriate word) relationship between the humanities and public engagement
Addressing the three main points Hawkes mentioned in his editorial in reverse order, I see a “complicated” relationship between the humanities and public engagement
We can count ourselves lucky—at least for for signs indicate that the systems in the UK and US are among the ideals Austrian politicians and university managements aspire toward

Summary

Introduction

Addressing the three main points Hawkes mentioned in his editorial in reverse order, I see a “complicated” (for the lack of a more appropriate word) relationship between the humanities and public engagement. In contrast to Hawkes, one may wonder whether it might, not be a good time to launch a journal, in particular a gold open-access one. As library budgets are diminishing and funding agencies across Europe have been increasingly implementing open-access mandates, there is an apparent need for journals (and monograph publishers) committed to open access.

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