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 of Arcade. Over the next several weeks we expect to host more single-author blogs by scholars, critics, poets, and others in the humanities and arts. We will also introduce collective blogs representing the joint work of research groups around the country and the world. If you belong to such a group and would like to share your discussions on Arcade, please let us hear from you.
Under Transactions, Applied Expertise is a forum in which humanists address topics that extend past the conventional limits of their fields. ArcadeWorks is a feature that enables you to convene a virtual seminar to discuss work in progress. Our selection of podcasts and videocasts highlights some of the best work in the humanities in these media.
And under our third rubric, Publications, we are delighted to introduce two entirely 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 University
- Managing Editor: Claire Bowen, Stanford University
- Technical Editor: Zach Chandler, Stanford University
- Editorial Assistant: Johaina Crisostomo
Editorial Board
- Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
- Rey Chow, Brown University
- Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley
- Jody Greene, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Timothy Hampton, University of California, Berkeley
- Joshua Landy, Stanford University
- Ramón Saldívar, Stanford University
- Katie Trumpener, Yale University
- Blakey Vermeule, Stanford University
Consulting Board
- John Bender, Stanford University
- Russell Berman, Stanford University
- Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis University
- Johanna Drucker, University of California, Los Angeles
- Gregory Freidin, Stanford University
- Joanna Guldi, University of Chicago and Harvard University
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University
- Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University
- Nicholas Jenkins, Stanford University
- Nicole Lopez, Stanford University
- David Lee Miller, University of South Carolina
- Haun Saussy, Yale University
- Jeffrey Schnapp, Stanford University
- John Willinsky, Stanford University and University of British Columbia
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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.
