“Why read and write about literature while the world burns?” Because, in working to end the oppression faced by so many, the humanities can help.
Roopika Risam
Roopika Risam is an associate professor of secondary and higher education and English at Salem State University. She is the author of New Digital Worlds: Postcolonial Digital Humanities in Theory, Praxis, and Pedagogy (Northwestern University Press, 2018) and coeditor of The Digital Black Atlantic (University of Minnesota Press, 2021). Her current book project, “Insurgent Academics: A Radical Account of Public Humanities,” traces a new history of public humanities through the emergence of ethnic studies. 
Academic Generosity, Academic Insurgency
During the summer of 2019, funding for the University of Alaska was slashed by the state legislature. With 41 percent of the annual budget, or $130 million ...