Essays in the Critical Humanities (EtCH) is committed to publishing work by activists and intellectuals that will form incisive and collective radical futures in which humans and non-humans not only survive but thrive. Learning from critiques of sexual and gender violence, colonialism and capitalism, caste and race, and more, the series provides ways to think the history of the present with an intentionality that includes the global. EtCH publications bring the power of scholarly research and theoretical reasoning to social justice goals, and they ignite challenging study in and beyond the classrooms of the neoliberal university, wherever it may be. EtCH therefore functions outside the university press publishing ecosystem and maintains editorial independence as it facilitates work that is sometimes at cross purposes with institutional structures. At the same time, it recognizes the value and preserves features of academic scholarship, such as peer review and an orientation to the pedagogical power of the classroom in amplifying important ideas.

EtCH recognizes the limitations of both the journal article and the monograph. Where the former is often too short to make a sustained intervention in a debate of urgent political import, the latter just as often can be superfluous to making many arguments of substance. Hence, EtCH essays are intended to be anywhere from 40-100 pages—a length that allows for rigor and depth while also enabling full engagement in one or two readings and assignment in the classroom. Within this format, EtCH makes room for a variety of genres and sub-genres of the sharply thought, from and across the accessible, the experimental, the theoretical, and the vernacular.

EtCH works will be published in the first instance as print and e-book but open as well to other formats.