Critical Humanities is an open-access, peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary and international bi-annual academic journal devoted to publishing critical debates and discussions on the culture, history, literature, politics, and theory emerging from the Global South. We are also interested in glancing comparatively at the American South, and at ethnic, immigrant and indigenous America.
Current Issue: Volume 5, Issue 1 (2026) Defending the Humanities
Introduction
Defending the Humanities: Introduction to the Special Issue on “why the Humanities Matter”
Megan Hutchinson
Articles
Enhancing Access and Social Mobility: Metro State University's Liberal Arts Mission in Action
Kristen Lillvis and Kate Ries
Why Literature Matters: Perpetrator Portrayal, Cultural Imaginary and Poetry of the Taliban
Inayat Ullah
Human Wisdom and Artificial Intelligence: Role of Liberal Arts Education in a Neoliberal World
Purna Chandra Bhusal
The Possibility of Post binary Reflexivity: A Genealogy of Binary Logic in Western Philosophy
Vaughan A. Bidois
Implementing 21st Century Skills in Quranic Education: A Case Study of Sub-Saharan African Students within Quranic Schools in the Souss Region of Morocco
Ahmed Abaragh and Lahoussine Hamdoune
Poetry
A Universe Gone Quickly
WILLIE CARVER
Interviews
An Interview with Mohammed Bennis
Mohammed Bennis and Amine Oudghiri-Otmani
Navigating Prose, Poetry and Criticism: An Interview with Nasir Abbas Nayyar on His Contribution to Urdu Literature and Literary Criticism
Nasir Abbas Nayyar and Inayat Ullah
A Poet Bears Witness: An Interview with M. L. Williams on the Function of Literary Studies in Troubled Times
Leah Toth and M. L. Williams