Verge: Studies in Global Asias

Verge: Studies in Global Asias

Verge: Studies in Global Asias showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the changing scope of “Asia” as a concept and method is today an object of vital critical concern.

Verge: Studies in Global Asia

Journal Description

Verge: Studies in Global Asias showcases scholarship on “Asian” topics from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, while recognizing that the changing scope of “Asia” as a concept and method is today an object of vital critical concern. Deeply transnational and transhistorical in scope, Verge emphasizes thematic and conceptual links among the disciplines and regional/area studies formations that address Asia in a variety of particularist (national, subnational, individual) and generalist (national, regional, global) modes. Responding to the ways in which large-scale social, cultural, and economic concepts like the world, the globe, or the universal (not to mention East Asian cousins like tianxia or datong) are reshaping the ways we think about the present, the past and the future, the journal publishes scholarship that occupies and enlarges the proximities among disciplinary and historical fields, from the ancient to the modern periods. The journal emphasizes multidisciplinary engagement—a crossing and dialogue of the disciplines that does not erase disciplinary differences, but uses them to make possible new conversations and new models of critical thought.

Tina Chen, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies, is the Editor of Verge, which is sponsored by Penn State’s Department of Asian Studies and published by the University of Minnesota Press.

Upcoming special issues include “Between Asia and Latin America,” “Frontiers,” “Indigeneity,” “Forgetting Wars,” and “Displaced Subjects: Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Critical Refugees Studies.”