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
Special Issue Editors
- Puspa Damai
- Megan Hutchinson