About my writing
I love to write. And I love to collaborate with colleagues and with students to publish articles and books that affect change. I even published a book with my daughter, Leah, when she was 17, because I wanted her to understand the power of her voice and abilities. That was amazing!
BOOKS & Edited volumes
NEW BOOK
a practical toolbox?
Curricular Pathways in Iberian, Latin American, LatinX Studies, and Beyond.
Edited by
Palmar Álvarez-Blanco, Christine Henseler and Stephanie A. Mueller
Forthcoming, Lever Press
An open access toolbox and a cartography of practices to reinvigorate language and area studies with case studies from many types of institutions and including topics like enrollments, first-gen students, heritage learners, AI, ecological perspectives, Spanish for specific purposes, civic engagement, and more.
A few journal articles
“Could A Center for Humanities Communication Be the Answer?" Co-authored with Alan Liu. The ACAD Leader. October 2023.
"Sparking a Movement: Cross-Disciplinary Innovation and the Humanities.”The Entrepreneurial Humanities: The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy. Ed. by Alain-Philippe Durand and Christine Henseler.
"Introduction: Humanities Rising: How the World Is . . . and Might Be"Extraordinary Partnerships: How the Arts and Humanities are Transforming America. Ed. by C. Henseler. Lever Press, 2020.
"Finding Humanity: Social Change on Our Own Terms."The Scholar as Human: Research and Teaching for Public Impact. Ed. Anna Sims Bartel and Debra A. Castillo.Cornell University Press, 2020. Pgs. 129 - 142.
"On the Fine Art of Being Portal:Seeing a Greater Range of Possibilities for Higher Education." Leonardo’s Children: Stories on Creativity by Fine Arts Leaders that will Blow your Mind. Co-edited by Aldemaro Romero Jr. and Steven J. Peters.Publisher: International Council of Fine Arts Deans.
"Taking the Future By the Horns:Making Change Happen From The Ground Up." Modern Languages Journal. Vol. 101. Issue 2. 436-39.I 2017.
A few BLOGS & articles
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Humanities: The Greatest ComeBack Story Ever Told, Medium, July 17th, 2024.
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“Is a Philosophy Degree Really Useless?” Medium, June 8th, 2024
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“Are the Arts and Humanities Only Hobbies or Viable Career Options?” Medium, June 12, 2024
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Could a Center for Humanities Communication Be the Answer? (co-authored with Alan Liu). ACAD Leader. October 2023 issue.
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Stop Repeating Age-old Stigmas: Careers in the Arts and Humanities are Plentiful and They Pay 4Humanities Blog Jan. 13, 2023.
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“Social Change through Storytelling”with Kathleen Sinatra, Hayden Paneth, and Kate Osterholz (4Humanities, Feb. 17th, 2020)
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“We Need More Men in the Humanities” (Inside Higher Ed, Oct. 2, 2018)
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“The Millennial Wave and the Changing Nature of Work” co-authored with Susan Frost
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posted to 4Humanities
Humanities: The Greatest Comeback Story Ever Told
This article takes the surprising approach of going against the grain to tell a comeback rather than a crisis story about the humanities. It meets the “where is the data?” question head on by delving in detail into why data about Humanities+ departments and programs are so hard to amass and what that difficulty itself tells us about how the humanities are positioned relative to what “counts” in society. ~ Alan Liu, Prof. of English, UC Santa Barbara