What is The Common Room?
The Common Room is an online Humanities journal publishing textual criticism. Issues are twice yearly, and we hope to spotlight undergraduates who connect how a text works to contemporary issues of justice, power, and politics. We therefore take an expansive definition of “text:” films, TV-shows, magazines, blog posts, photographs, Instagram stories, cultural movements, ideological positions, and yes, even books.
Our Mission Statement
Our goal is to make Humanities research relevant, innovative, and accessible to a broad audience by connecting historical and contemporary texts more closely with current cultural and political trends. We want textual criticism to be an engaging experience as well as an intellectual outlet for Humanities students. We seek to showcase writing with personality and purpose, instead of run-of-the-mill academic essays. The Common Room strives to bring textual criticism closer to the public and the public closer to textual criticism. The Humanities don’t have to be boring anymore!
The Editors
Currently, the editors of The Common Room are Hazel Carroll, Jude Reed, Zeytin Ercan, and Guy McEntarffer. We assisted and mentored by Prof. Emily R. Anderson.
Contact
The Common Room staff can be reached at commonroom-user@knox.edu.
