Professor of English, Co-Director of the Centre for Climate Justice, President’s Excellence Chair in Network Cultures, and Public Humanities Hub Advisory Board Member
“If you look at the Public Humanities Hub website, there is a great definition of the humanities as encompassing the different ways in which we understand all facets of the human experience, for example through narrative, memoir, creative expression. If you look at what humans do and all its complexity, you need interdisciplinarity because humans do everything in a week. They might do something analytical, aesthetic, emotional, religious, political—if we break those all up into different departments, you do not get the full understanding of human experience. Interdisciplinarity is required to understand human experience itself because we experience life in all its complexity.”
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