Welcome to Arcade, a digital salon.
Arcade is a place for readers and writers interested in literature, the humanities, and the world. We aim to publish a broad range of the most exciting research in the humanities, from the accessible to the esoteric, across languages, historical periods, and generations.
Under our three rubrics—Conversations, Transactions, and Publications—we offer an array of blogs, journals that seek to redefine their genre, forums for the exchange of ideas and observations, videocasts and podcasts, and other features for scholars, students, and the public. Our international, multilingual community is committed to redrawing, and sometimes erasing, the lines between contributors and readers.
All of our features are intended to be the best of their kind: curated but participatory, technologically rich in the service of intellectual exchange, and open to multiple modalities. Arcade belongs to the Open Access movement in scholarly publishing.
Arcade changes every day. Daily updates will be found in Conversations, the most topical section. We host about thirty invited, single-author blogs by scholars, critics, poets, and others in the humanities and arts. Anyone may join the conversation and comment on these blogs. Please consult our comment policy.
Under Transactions, ArcadeWorks is a feature that enables you to convene a virtual seminar to discuss work in progress. Multimedia contains audio and (soon) video of scholarly lectures from different institutions. Coming soon in partnership with the Stanford Humanities Center, Interventions will bring short essays by scholars on matters of broad public interest.
And under our third rubric, Publications, we are delighted to introduce two new digital-only journals, Republics of Letters and Occasion.
In time we expect to offer virtual books that will both extend the reach of scholarly publishing into new areas and revive stale or neglected categories such as the study of one writer, the festschrift, and the collection of essays. Moreover, we are working on a number of new features that bring interactivity to conventional areas of literary studies. These many venues are indispensable to showing research in the humanities in all its complexity, with outcomes as unpredictable as those in other disciplines.
Please contact us at <arcade@stanford.edu>. We hope you will visit often.
- Director: Roland Greene, Stanford
- Managing Editor: Marissa Gemma, Stanford
- Managing Editor: Meredith Ramirez Talusan, Cornell
- Assistant Managing Editor: Alex Slessarev, Stanford
- Technical Editor Emeritus: Zach Chandler, Stanford
- Editorial Board
- Rey Chow, Duke
- Margaret Cohen, Stanford
- Ian Duncan, UC Berkeley
- Jody Greene, UC Santa Cruz
- Timothy Hampton, UC Berkeley
- Joshua Landy, Stanford
- Ramón Saldívar, Stanford
- Katie Trumpener, Yale
- Blakey Vermeule, Stanford
Consulting Board
- John Bender, Stanford
- Russell Berman, Stanford
- Claire Bowen, Dickinson
- Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis
- Natalia Cecire, Yale
- Johanna Drucker, UCLA
- Gregory Freidin, Stanford
- Joanna Guldi, Brown
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford
- Ursula K. Heise, UCLA
- Nicholas Jenkins, Stanford
- Nicole Lopez, Stanford
- David Lee Miller, South Carolina
- Haun Saussy, Chicago
- Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard
- John Willinsky, Stanford and British Columbia
Colophon
Arcade employs the following fonts: Garamond for the general logo, Georgia for the headlines, and Tahoma for the body text. Our PDF files in the journals are designed in Arno Pro. For readers whose browsers do not support these fonts, we indicate as alternate fonts Times New Roman for the headlines and Arial for the body text.
Arcade uses a modification of the Amadou Drupal Theme by Jay Wolf; rubric icons are designed by Ashling Loh-Doyle of Experimedia. Type design for the journal PDFs is the work of Jason Miranda.
Our E-Journal software is a Drupal customization provided by Chapter Three, and is available as a free download at drupal.org. We encourage all who want to get involved in the future of this publishing system to join drupal.org and submit requests there.
The rotating banner images on Arcade's main page are remixed from various photographers on Flickr who have licensed their works openly via Creative Commons share-alike licenses. We thank these innovators—John Talbot, Paul Moody, Jessie Varner, Auntie P, Petromyzon (Jim), joiseyshowaa—for choosing copyleft licenses.
