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 4, Issue 1 (2025) Planetary [] Appalachia
Introduction
Planetary [] Appalachia: Editor’s Introduction
Scott C. McDaniel
Special Issue Articles
Planetary/Peripheral Appalachia
Matthew Halm
Planetary Thinking: Hellbenders as Emissaries of Appalachia
Tierra R. Curry
Appalachian Archipelagos: "writing from measureless location” in C.S. Giscombe’s Geopoetics
Jay Butler
Fire in the Hole: Appalachia’s Elemental Narrative in Harlan County, USA and King Coal
Somak Mukherjee
Interviews
Where the Fog Hangs: An Interview with Elaine Sheldon McMillion on Appalachia, Filmmaking, and the Power of Small Acts
Elaine McMillion Sheldon and Scott C. McDaniel
Directional Poetics: An Interview with Ed Simon on Pittsburgh, Appalachia, and the Memories of Geography
Ed Simon and Scott C. McDaniel
Book Reviews

Scott McDaniel, Ph.D.
- Guest Editor