Editor & Fiction Editor – Michael Mejia
Poetry Editors – Katharine Coles, Craig Dworkin, Thomas Stillinger
Nonfiction Editors – Stuart Culver, Jeremy Rosen
Managing Editor – Emily Dyer Barker
Consulting Editors – Barry Weller, Mindy Wilson
Print Design – Hailey Rabdau
Web Design – Adam Halstrom
Reviews Editors – Lauren Lipski, Michelle Macfarlane, Alyssa Quinn
Editorial Board – Scott Black, Vincent Cheng, Norman Council, Karen Lawrence, Michael Martone, Stephen Tatum
Cover Image – Annie K. Blake, Insides, Acrylic on board, 2016, with permission of the artist, ©Annie K. Blake
Editor’s Note
Our annual special issue with the Western Humanities Alliance. This year’s theme is “Humanities in the Community.”
Guest Editors: Susan Derwin and Erin Nerstad, with an introduction by Susan Derwin.
Western Humanities Alliance Special Issue:
Humanities in the Community
Susan Derwin
Civic Empowerment, Public Humanities, and Graduate Education in the 21st Century
Elyse A. Gonzales, Pablo Helguera, Suzanne Lacy, and Sara Reisman
Suzanne Lacy and Pablo Helguera in Conversation
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco
Co-Mingling Bodies and Collective Postmemory Creative Theater and Performance Experiments as Humanities-Engaged Community Building
Michele Bury, Vivian Price, and Ellie Zenhari
Visual Narratives and Political Awareness
Volker M. Welter
Restoration within Reach: The Miles C. Bates House, Palm Desert, California
Swati Chattopadhyay
Colonial Sovereignty and Territorial Affect
Annie Dwyer
The Humanities Doctoral Student in the Community