Angelaki: journal of the
theoretical humanities

GENERAL EDITOR

MANAGING EDITOR

EXECUTIVE EDITORS

Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities was established in September 1993 to provide an international forum for vanguard work in the theoretical humanities. In itself a contentious category posited by the journal, ‘theoretical humanities’ represents the productive nexus of work in the disciplinary fields of literary criticism and theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The journal is dedicated to the refreshing of intellectual coordinates, and to the challenging and vivifying process of re-thinking.

Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities encourages a critical engagement with theory in terms of disciplinary development and intellectual and political usefulness, the inquiry into and articulation of culture, and the complex determination of change and its relation to history. Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities is committed to fostering the theory of minor movements, recognising their significant impact on and dynamic relation to the development of cultures, political spaces and academic disciplines, and emphasising their formative power rather than their oppositional entrenchment.

The journal promotes inquiry into questions of existential and political definition and agency, on the personal, collective and institutional levels, and encourages the work of spirited and experimental theoretical writing in all areas of value production.

Praise for Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities

"Angelaki has established itself as a leading forum of theoretical reflection, providing a practical refutation of all those who would celebrate "the end of theory." Whether it is focused on thematic issues of the most varied nature, introducing thinkers to English-language readers, or treating a variety of problems in ‘open’ issues, Angelaki challenges the complacency of the self-evident. Required reading for the next millennium."
Samuel Weber, University of California at Los Angeles, 1998

"Angelaki has quickly established a space in which theoretical work that aims to acknowledge the boundaries between disciplines by questioning them can flourish. The conversations it enables have been energetic, unpredictable and genuinely productive."
Stephen Mulhall, New College, Oxford University, 1998

"…an indispensable part of my library, publishing some of the best new work and signalling some of the most important new directions in cultural studies."
Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1998

"…consistently provides innovative and stimulating insights on an exciting array of current critical issues. In an era of diminishing expectations, Angelaki gives new hope for creative, collaborative research."
Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University, 1998

"…the most innovative and exciting new journal in the field of literary and cultural theory to have emerged from Britain in recent years…provoking, attuned to the moment and at the same time surprising."
Nicholas Royle, University of Stirling, 1997

"A strong and surprising publication that is interested in a wide range of cultural studies issues from harder-theory perspectives…’ ‘Angelaki's position papers and substantial essays, addressing current concerns in cultural theory zero in on interesting and problematical topics and fields, with results that are resourceful, rigorous, and lively...’ ‘I put Angelaki at the top because I find it refreshingly alive, buzzing with critical energy.’"
From the CELJ Awards transcript, 1996

"Refreshing and truly thought-provoking; worthy of all but the smallest college libraries"
Library Journal, 1994

"Good to think with…generates an agreeable vitality and iconoclasm…full of promise"
The Times Higher Education Supplement, 1994

Abstracting and Indexing

Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities is currently included in: the Modern Humanities Research Association's Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; MLA International Bibliography; Periodica Islamica; Social Planning/Policy & Development Abstracts; Sociological Abstracts; The Literary Criticism Register; The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and The Year's Work in English Studies.

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